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Google to phase out CAPTCHA codes with single click feature

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In the event that you've needed an account recently, you've probably seen it: a quick test that provides for you a couple of mutilated words and requests that you write them back in plaintext. The official name is CAPTCHA, a test designed to weed out the robotized scripts utilized for spam, yet its been broken for quite a while. Google recently flaunted a framework that could crack it 99.8 percent of the time, and most spammers are happy to run their scripts knowing only one in ten will sneak past. At the same time despite the fact that everybody knows CAPTCHA is broken, there hasn't been a clear idea of what may replace it. Early today, Google is divulging the best answer yet. It's called No-CAPTCHA ( reCAPTCHA ), another methodology based on another API, and its as of now been adopted by Snapchat , Wordpress and Humble Bundle , in addition to different partners. As opposed to asking users to pass a test, Google's new framework prescreens each client's cond...