This Is The Terrifying Reason Why Captcha Puzzles Are Getting Harder

Have you noticed that Captcha tests are getting harder? I feel like I’ve gone from trying to identify how many squares in a grid contain traffic lights (which I did already find tricky because what if it’s just a small corner?!?!) to going through an entire song and dance just to visit a website.

Captcha stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart’ and was created to prevent bots from accessing networks and private data.

They are important...