You're probably all familiar with this box appearing on sites. But the fact of the matter is they prove nothing, and doesn't make security better., it's just a useless checkbox sites force you to click on that provides no additional security.
A bot can easily be told to click in the precise location area of the checkbox like a regular user by snapping cursor to that position on-screen. Sometimes they give you a Picture Puzzle where you have to click on a series of slow loading image tiles that it wants you to click on.
"Are you a robot?"
Probably? ...If you work a dead-end 9-5 job with no breaks, you're also probably a robot.
reCAPTCHA's are stupid, pointless and unnecessary. But also a privacy nightmare, and should be using ALTCHA, the alternative to reCAPTCHA that is more privacy friendly and user friendly because it uses a Proof-of-Work mechanism of verifying devices without user interaction.
https://altcha.org/blog/2024/why-captchas-are-useless/
#recaptcha #security #webdev #altcha