What’s new in Google Chrome 114 Beta: Auto-verify captchas
Google is well aware of the fact that everybody hates captchas. As important as captchas are to keep robots and automated scripts locked out from places they shouldn’t visit, they’re increasingly more annoying to solve. Chrome 114 wants to fix that by adding support for the Private State Tokens API. This allows websites to better recognize if you’re actually a human without having to resort to captchas. In Chrome settings, the toggle that will control this option is called Auto-verify. It is accessible under Settings → Privacy and security → Site settings → Additional content settings → Auto-verify, and you don’t have to enable any flags to get started with it.
Chrome 114 is making the switch to Google’s own Root Store
Computers on the internet need to trust each other in order to establish secure connections, and the way this works is via so-called Root Stores. It is a repository of trusted certificates that allow computers to check if the server they’re connecting to is actually secure. All operating systems offer built-in Root Stores, but Google is currently in the process of switching Chrome over to its own Root Store in an effort to provide a consistent experience across all operating systems people use Chrome on.