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Why is captcha used?

Updated: 12/23/2022
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated PublicTuring test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".

Its purpose is to prevent web sites where users can post content from being flooded with spam. Not all CAPTCHAs are equally effective, though. Programs exist that can decipher a couple of different CAPTCHAs without human interaction. By being pictures with text, they make it harder for automated bots to read and enter text to break the security. They can also ask questions based on photos that again a computer would not be able to answer, but a human can.

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