How to Use captcha in a Sentence
captcha
noun-
Google search was a nice touch, as was the school bus captcha.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2023 -
No longer will a captcha code be required after that step in the process broke down.
— Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 -
You will be prompted to enter a captcha in order for your vote to go through.
— Brenda Cain and Yadi Rodriguez - Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 3 Sep. 2019 -
The captcha may also make the page look more convincing to targets.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024 -
Use a captcha, a program that protects websites against bots.
— Melissa Simone, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019 -
Khedouri says the Privacy Access Token isn’t the end of the captcha—far from it.
— Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 -
That's why web captcha command could be seen more online – it's being used as a bot blocker.
— CBS News, 30 Nov. 2021 -
His bit on the insanity of captcha will be remembered forever.
— Tom Philip, GQ, 11 May 2018 -
People can receive Nano tokens simply by solving a captcha on a Web page, letting people with low-end computers take part.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 May 2021 -
However, the outlet noted that the site now displays a captcha, which is most likely an attempt to stop automated submissions.
— Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2021 -
From here, the final steps are clear: Enter your password and solve the security captcha, and your request to permanently delete your account is underway.
— Josie Colt, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018 -
The idea is to attach a cryptographic tag to a piece of content that verifies it was created by a human, as determined by its process of creation—a sort of captcha for digital files.
— Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Fat Bear election integrity officials soon discovered thousands of fake email addresses linked to the bogus ballots, corrected the tally, and added a captcha to the site to fend off the spammers.
— WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022 -
Most internet users will have done some form of data labeling: identifying images of traffic lights and buses for online captchas.
— Niamh Rowe, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023 -
The first step is to fill out a registration form (that appears simple and has a pretty intense captcha verification), for individuals as well as companies.
— Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 12 June 2019 -
Sophisticated internet software known as bots race through ticket sellers’ online ordering forms and buy hundreds of tickets well before human eyes even reach a captcha.
— Rebecca Beitsch, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018 -
The redirections lead to sites pushing fake tech support, fraudulent lottery wins, and push notification scams, the latter of which trick visitors into subscribing to push notifications by displaying fake captcha dialogs.
— Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
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