I built a CAPTCHA that never lets you leave

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built I built a fake CAPTCHA game called I'm Not a Robot. It starts like a normal human verification flow: click the checkbox solve the...

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I built a CAPTCHA that never lets you leave

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This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built I built a fake CAPTCHA game called I'm Not a Robot. It starts like a normal human verification flow: click the checkbox solve the image challenge verify and move on with your life Except it never really lets you move on. The main joke is based on one of the most annoying real CAPTCHA experiences: you click all the correct image tiles, and then more tiles keep loading. Sometimes the new tile also contains the thing you were supposed to click. Sometimes it does not. Sometimes you think you are finally done, but the system decides you are absolutely not done. So I turned that tiny moment of internet frustration into the entire product. The project is intentionally useless, mildly hostile, and completely committed to wasting your time in the most familiar way possible. Demo Live demo: CodePen demo Try it yourself and see how long it takes before the CAPTCHA starts feeling personal. Code The whole project is built as a ligh

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