Why Captchas are getting harder to solve

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Are you finding those annoying little puzzles you need to complete before you can proceed on websites harder to solve? You aren't alone and there might be a good reason for it.

Experts have confirmed that Captchas, which were developed in the early 2000s, are indeed getting more difficult, and this tells us "something terrifying about the future", said Metro.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.