Even those bots that aren’t bad actors can cause problems when businesses use web analytics skewed by bots to make decisions.ĬAPTCHAs are the most visible technique used by online businesses to differentiate between real customers and bots. Not every bot that visits a website is there to cause trouble, but many are-scraping the content, trying to buy limited-edition goods before genuine customers can, or using card gateways to check if stolen credit card details are still valid. With over half of web traffic automated, it’s increasingly important for businesses to tell which of their online visitors are real and which are bots. Squint and retype these increasingly indecipherable letters (“Is that a lowercase H or a lowercase B?”). Please prove that you’re not a bot: select all the photos that show traffic lights.
Shopping or booking an appointment online can seem increasingly like busywork.
