A New Year’s resolution for #tech companies: knock it off with the CAPTCHAs

The thing about CAPTCHAs is that they’re old enough to drink. The . So why am I still being asked to fill them out? I am not talking about the inoffensive ones with the puzzle pieces. I am not talking, even, about matching or rotating shapes. I am talking, specifically, about the grid of insane photos — the kind of thing you may be familiar with from Google’s reCAPTCHA system. If you are looking for a measured take on why they exist or the efforts to build replacements, . I am not feeling measured, although I will resentfully note that CAPTCHA exists in order to stop bots and does an okay job at it. You know how I am feeling? I was trying to buy tickets to a double feature of