Bloomberg - Are you a robot? (2024)

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How does CAPTCHA know I'm not a robot? ›

The latest versions of reCAPTCHA are able to take a holistic look at a user's behavior and history of interacting with content on the Internet. Most of the time, the program can decide based on those factors whether or not the user is a bot, without providing the user with a challenge to complete.

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The “I'm not a robot” checkbox is a CAPTCHA, or a “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Essentially any type of test, whether it's selecting the image with stoplights or typing out a word that's blurry, is a CAPTCHA, which is used to stop bots.

The click isn't the test; the test comes before the click, like how your mouse moves toward that box. Google tracks that kind of thing. The cursor, controlled by a robot, moves in a suspiciously straight line at a constant speed, whereas your mouse movements are more human-like.

A 2020 episode of QI gave a rather surprising explanation of what ticking 'I am not a robot' on a website really does. They said that it gives a website permission to look at your actions and history on your device to decide if you are human.