Ticketmaster has announced that it has axed one of the most complained-about elements of modern ticket buying for a less annoying solution.

Fans in the UK and Ireland will no longer be asked to decipher hard-to-read squiggly lines in order to prove they are human.

The US arm of the ticketing giant dumped its CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) barrier last year, in favour of software created by Solve Media - which asks ...