Spammers Use The Human Touch To Avoid CAPTCHA

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Does this mean that future CAPTCHAs will have questions like, "What is the type of bird whose name is the same as an American Vice President's?"

One math-based comic strip I read uses a math question (very simple calculus) as its CAPTCHA.

Another option is to give english-language instructions on how to fill out the CAPTCHA. For example, "type the characters in reverse order".

You could make these more complex, like "remove the third, fourth, and seventh character and then unscramble the remaining characters to spell the name of the object pictured to the side".

As the article mentioned, this will not 100% stop spammers, but it will make it a bit more costly to them, probably stopping those whose margins can't handle the financial hit.

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