I built https://t.co/YtUfA7fIyM – verify you’re human by playing DOOM and killing at least 3 enemies 😁 (in nightmare mode)
powered by webassembly × libsdl, ui built in @v0 pic.twitter.com/kv6TAbJglx
— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) December 31, 2024
What’s the purpose of CAPTCHA
The purpose of CAPTCHAs is to prevent spam on websites, such as promotion spam, registration spam, and data scraping. Many websites use CAPTCHA effectively to prevent bot raiding.
They are designed so that humans can complete them, while most robots cannot. CAPTCHAs look at the user’s behaviour on the internet, to prove that they are a human. A normal CAPTCHA test only appears if the user acts like a bot, such as when they request webpages, or click links too fast.
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a human or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion — where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles.
Image recognition — you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bridge image; and checkbox verification — you click on that box that reads: “I am not a robot”.
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a front-end-as-a-service product, he used the company’s AI site builder to come up with a new twist on CAPTCHAs, one that invites users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and kill at least three monsters. You can check it out here.
And if you are interested to read more about the same , check this
I think it’s really fun. Let me know what you think in comments.
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This post was previously published on Women in Technology.
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