One of the frustrating experiences online is filling out a CAPTCHA. If you have use the internet in the last 20 years, you know what CAPTCHA is and you likely did not like it too.
Spending a minute to figure out which letters and numbers the distorted lines on the screen mean or to find out which squares have a traffic light in them is no fun when all you are trying to do is enter a website.
And if your dislike for them is as intense as ours, then you should know that you may not have to fill in CAPTCHAs all the time if a new feature from both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge is roll out.
But let us take a look at what exactly it is and why the entire online people had to deal with it for such a long time.
CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test use to determine whether the user is human in order to keep bot attacks and spam away.
The term was coin in 2003 and it became one of the primary ways to tell humans and bots apart for websites ever since.
In April, an X (formerly Twitter) user found that Google Chrome for Desktop was testing a new feature to auto-verify CAPTCHAs.
He post, sharing screenshots :
"Google has quietly added a new "Auto-verify" page in Chrome Settings, Chromium developers call this feature "anti-abuse" and it was adds in February, but I haven't seen it mention anywhere".
Basically, how it works is if a user has once solve a CAPTCHA on a website, it will bypass the puzzle the next time and automatically verify the user as a real human.
This means if a website you frequent has a CAPTCHA at entry or at any other screen thereafter, you will not have to solve it.
And it gets better, a couple of days ago, X (formerly Twitter) user post on X again and highlight that Microsoft Edge is also testing a similar feature.
He said :
Four months ago I spotted a new feature in Chrome called "Auto-verify", well, it turns out that this new option is now also available in Edge... but in the Android version (Dev and Canary)".
While Microsoft Edge is apparently only getting it on the Android version for now, but it is a welcome move nonetheless.
It should be note that there is no date of release for this feature, but it is believe that the features can be roll out soon.
