Based on Cloudflare's data it takes the average person 32 seconds to complete a CAPTCHA challenge such as 'click on all the pictures with bicycles'. With 4.6 billion internet users worldwide and the typical person seeing a CAPTCHA once every 10 days this equates to an incredible headline on the Cloudflare blog asserting "Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs". For reference, CAPTCHA is an abbreviation of 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart'. Unfortunately - due to the bad faith actors of the connected world - spammers, hackers and so on, CAPTCHAs are deemed necessary by some entities / organisations to save their online resources from misuse. One very contemporary reason I have been seeing more CAPTCHAs than ever is due to PC hardware shortages and their battles with scalpers. I've been faced with these 'are you human?' gateway pages when visiting places like Scan.co.uk, eBuyer, and so on recently.