CAPTCHAs are over
Raphael Michel tells us that CAPTCHAs are over (for ticketing):
CAPTCHAs were invented over 20 years ago to distinguish between human and non-human users of a website. The basic idea is this: Ask the user to solve a problem that is easy to solve for a human but hard to solve for a computer.
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These days, a state-of-the-art machine learning model is able to easily solve this problem and recognize the words.
CAPTCHAs are one of the things I dislike the most on the internet. Not only they have always been user hostile, but they also are privacy invading, and I often fail them: it that little piece of metal part of the motorcycle? How do I know it is a taxi? A mailbox? A lot of Google reCAPTCHA puzzle are so dependent on cultural reference, not suprsingly very american centric.
Michel goes on to explain what the problems are for CAPTCHAs, even more in the area of ticketing (scalper buying tickets, ruining it for everyone), the fact there are accessible requirements by law1, and that some other solutions are very much privacy invading.2
We get CAPTCHAs for everything now, like logging in on whatever service you use, and I just wish they would disappear, even more since they seem even to not even be usefull and just be an anti-user measure.