People are only just finding out what really happens when you click 'I'm not a robot' while browsing online - and they're not impressed!

Have you eagerly logged onto your favourite website, only to be questioned if you're a

By Maria Okanrende For Mailonline

Have you eagerly logged onto your favourite website, only to be questioned if you're a human or a robot?

Well if you've mindlessly clicked on it without knowing what it means, you're not alone. 

And now two Australian radio hosts have revealed what really happens when you click on the 'I'm not a robot' box - and the findings are slightly more complex than you'd think.

Presenters Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald, 46, and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli, 43, took to TikTok to explain the mystery behind the 'I am not a robot' button, as revealed in a 2020 episode of the BBC's Quite Interesting game show.

In a mini clip of the show, host Sandi Toksvig shared her knowledge on the topic with comedians Alan Davies, Maisie Adams and Holly Walsh. 

The 'I’m not a robot' checkbox is called a CAPTCHA - an acronym for 'Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart' - and when you check the box, your data is collected at the same time.

The system enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites - and after ticking the box, it prompts the website to check your browsing history.

Wippa said on TikTok: 'What I didn't realise is if you click I'm not a robot - what it actually does when you press that button - they're collecting data at the same time.'

'Ticking the box is not the point. It's how you behaved before you ticked the box that is analysed' he added.

And in a short snippet of the QI show, Sandi explained: 'Broadly speaking, you tick the box and it prompts the website to check your browsing history.'

'So let us say for example just before you tick the box you watched a couple of cat videos, you liked a tweet about Greta Thunberg.'

'You checked your Gmail account before you got down to work. All of that makes them think that you must be a human.'

'Essentially when you are clicking I am not a robot, you are instructing the site to have a look at your data and decide for itself.' 

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