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Google's reCAPTCHA Lead To 819 Million Hours Of Wasted Human Time - And Billions In Profit
People are increasingly exposing Google’s reCAPTCHA, once thought to be a necessary security tool, as ineffective against bots and a massive privacy invasion tool. Tests known as captchas compel users to recognize jumbled text, to work out what kind of situation a certain kind of picture illustrates, or to indicate which image (of many) fits […] The post Google’s reCAPTCHA Lead To 819 Million Hours Of Wasted Human Time – And Billions In Profit a…
Is Captcha Profitable for Google but Frustrating for Users? - theGeek.games
TECH NEWS – A 2023 study (conducted at UC Irvine and called Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCaptchav2) has revealed a shocking result! The study concluded that captchas fail to prevent bot-generated traffic, raise security concerns with tracking cookies, and waste billions of hours of our time while generating nearly $1 trillion worth of data for Google, which acquired ReCaptcha in 2009. There are two forms of this…
When visiting websites, users are often asked to prove that they are not robots, for example, by identifying blurred letters and numbers. This test is called CAPTCHA and is designed to protect websites from bot attacks and spam. In 2007, a more effective method called reCAPTCHA appeared - it requires recognizing objects or text in images and is more difficult for bots.
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