Cloudflare on CAPTCHAs: "it's time to end this madness"
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, C...