New Captcha System Relies On Empathy To Keep Spambots At Bay

We have all faced the CAPTCHA at some point in our Internet dependent existence. It has made us feel irritated at having to prove that we are human even though it exists for a good purpose. Without CAPTCHAs, comment boards would be filled with spam-bots offering you dildos and penis enlargements. The spam has reduced but CAPTCHA is still vulnerable.

The Civil Rights Defenders which is activist group, has come up with an innovative solution to keeping CAPTCHAs away from the freewheeling bots who still manage to game the system. They have introduced a new civil rights CAPTCHA with gives you a civil rights fact and asks you how you feel about it. The options have one correct answer and other words which are clearly not applicable in the scenario. You have to pick up the right the word and then it will give you the access. This CAPTCHA works by leveraging human empathy to let people through. This is a unique solution. The by-product of this CAPTCHA is that Civil Rights Defenders get to spread the news of human rights violations across the Internet. Two birds with a stone!

This Captcha can be used by anyone on their website and is a permanent installation. You can go here and see the installation details.

Website | Civil Rights Captcha

Source | The Verge

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