“Is it just me, or have those ‘I am not a robot’ tests started getting harder?” British comic Jack Whitehall quipped in his latest Netflix special “Settle Down.” He lamented his ...

“I am not a robot.” How many of us have been asked by Google or other websites to prove that? It is tempting to say that being forced to check the “I am not a robot” box is dehumanizing, but it’s ...

Maybe you clicked on a bunch of pictures of stop signs. Or maybe you just clicked a box that said "I am not a robot." These tests are one of the annoyances we put up with to do stuff on the Internet.

"Essentially when you are clicking 'I am not a robot' you are instructing the site to have a look at your data and decide for itself." Usually the test is enough to satisfy the program that you ...