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Here's an idea I've seen implemented in some captchas:

Instead of generating an image of text that most people have to strain to read, instead, generate a relatively cleaner image but instead of typing that in, have it ask a question to be answered.

"What do you get when you add 2 and 2?"

etc...

Would that fare better?



I've seen those stupid mathematics captcha, there's a thing called eval() in javascript.


What about people that type in "four" or "IV" instead of the expected numeral "4"? The answer is still technically correct but one fails the catchpa.


That is an IQ test. It fails to reliably differentiate between machines and humans, as machines become human.




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