Normally seen when you’re buying something really popular, and often seen with a mash of ‘Xh38bF’ that looks all swirly and weird.
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Are you talking about captchas?
These are used to make sure you’re a human and not an automated service. Humans are great at recognizing general shapes from pictures, but it’s really hard for a robot to pull meaningful information from pictures. They’re getting better at it, which is why you’ll see more and more other tests, but it prevents Any low quality or cheap automated programs from using whatever it is.
Bots can’t easily decipher those. Not as easily as us humans anyway. It keeps the site from being invaded by an army of bots.
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