Ten Terrible Tech Annoyances That Should Be Illegal

Today’s technology is astonishing, magical, and delightful. It can also be annoying beyond belief. How many times have you yelled, “There oughta be a law!” at a product or website, wondering who in their right mind
could have released a certain “feature” into the world?
And you’re right. There oughta.
Someday, the editors of Yahoo Tech will rule the world. And we will work swiftly to enact laws that fix the most annoying tings in technology:
1. CAPTCHAs shall be banned
CAPTCHAs are these dumb things:They are readability roadblocks on websites. They’re supposed to prevent automated spammer software from signing up for fake accounts, but it’s a losing game. Computers are getting smarter all the time. Humans are not. In order to make CAPTCHAs too hard for computers to read, they’ve had to become too hard for humans to decipher. It’s time for them to go.
See also: Google Has Developed Technology to Crack CAPTCHAs

2. Hold music and the right of silence
If you have to wait on the phone to talk to a person or a machine, why should you be subjected to awful music? We decree that there shall be an option for silence, maybe with a periodic, quiet update that you’re still on hold. You know, so that you can actually focus on something else instead of having some horrible din blasting in your ear.