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People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA


CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where

CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. But Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product, just used the company’s to come up with a new twist on CAPTCHAs, one that invites users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and killing at least three monsters. But it’s nevertheless topping the charts over at Hacker News, whose audience of largely developers has notes, with some complaining it’s too hard, another complimenting the project as “so metal,” and another remarking: “There are so many monsters, took me 3-4 tries…just like a real captcha!”

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