Cloudflare is one of the top providers of web infrastructure and security, content delivery, DNS, among others. The company has also been offering businesses bot management solutions…
Something to look forward to: Most of us have had to deal at least a few times with CAPTCHAs on websites that wouldn’t load because of a suspicion that we might be…robots. Solving those CAPTCHAs is a frustrating process, and Cloudflare says it has an idea on how to minimize and eventually eliminate them. Cloudflare is one of the top providers of web infrastructure and security, content delivery, DNS, among others. The company has also been offering businesses bot management solutions — including CAPTCHA (short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) services — but it has now decided to kill the need for it once and for all. Cloudflare relied on Google’s reCAPTCHA for years, but that left little room for customization and eventually raised some privacy concerns, as Google may use data from that service to train its visual identification systems for Waymo autonomous tech. That led to a move to hCaptcha last year, but the company did note at the time that CAPTCHAs are not ideal solutions and that it was working on a way to make them redundant. CAPTCHAs are a big headache for users, as they take an average of 32 seconds to complete since they’ve gotten harder and harder over the years.
