People Spend 500 Years Every Day on CAPTCHAs: Cloudflare
An average user spends 32 seconds to complete a CAPTCHA challenge By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 17 May 2021 14:57 IST
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Highlights
Cumulatively, 500 years are spent on CAPTCHA daily
Cloudflare also says it causes issues with accessibility
Squinting at garbled text, trying to making sense of small images and square boxes, or simply clicking on a checkbox to confirm you re a human and not a bot, ‘CAPTCHA is part and parcel of our daily Internet browsing experience. The purpose of CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing Challenges, is to boost the security of online services, but the annoying verification process is something most of us would love to do away with. Now, a recent study by web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has shown that people around the world waste 500 human years every single day while trying to prove they are