# Are captchas going away?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-captchas-going-away/957624
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-captchas-going-away/957624 "2022-01-12T02:28:59Z")
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### Author: ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-captchas-going-away/957624/27 "2022-01-18T18:59:37Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> “Which of these little tiny squares contains a car?"

I posted a [vent about this last summer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-june-dont-make-it-bad-but-you-will-mini-rant/943383/427) - since it was my workplace that required it, numerous times a frickin’ day. The upshot was these are being used to help train self-driving cars.

I have to assume there’s some money changing hands somewhere, from Google (or whatever) to those sites who’ve been persuaded to implement them.

> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Something else I’ve noticed seems to be going away: Those “security questions” you are sometimes asked in order to log in. Questions like “Who was your favorite teacher?” or “What street did you live on as a child?”

As a fun side note: there are a lot of rumors out there that fun games on Facebook like “your porn name is your first pet’s name, plus the street you lived on at age 8” are ways for ID-theft harvesters to get that kind of info.

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