CAPTCHA Friction Drops Signups at the Registration Gate
Traditional image-recognition CAPTCHAs frustrate legitimate users at signup, causing measurable drop-off before conversion. The friction is structural — every product using CAPTCHA for bot prevention faces the same tradeoff between security and user experience. This post frames a gamified alternative as a partial remedy, but the underlying tension between bot defense and conversion remains unsolved at scale.
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