CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years
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CAPTCHAs were created in 2003 to block bots, but every generation — distorted text, image grids, behavioral tracking — was eventually defeated by advancing AI. Now, with browser agents doing real work for real users, a new approach is emerging: cryptographic agent identity, so legitimate automation never needs to prove it's human at all.
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