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If a machine can determine you are human what if it learns your unique patterns? Couldn't it then be used to determine you are you?
And couldn't this solve the problem of identity?
In the bitcoin world, what if you could use this to log into your bitcoin wallet?
Moreover, I'm not sure if most people know this, but reCaptcha was supposed to be converting ancient text to digital text[I read that once on quora, I'm not really sure if it's entirely true, but I guess it is]. So now, I can be less proud of not contributing to conversion of ancient texts to digital books.
And, I'd love you if you make the thing open-source, Google...
Do they even need the checkbox anymore? They could track mouse movement, keypresses, history or whatever else they are tracking without showing any kind of GUI at all.
How do you track mouse movement on a tablet?
> IP addresses and cookies provide evidence that the user is the same friendly human Google remembers from elsewhere on the Web.
If this becomes a trend then major commercial websites will become unusable for people who are not accepting (third-party) cookies. "Because those damn bots" is a straw man argument to make people trackable by assuming that there are no other useability improving methods that don't track the user (which I think is highly unlikely).
Is there really a system once employed that coders won't overcome in days? Do we need a trusted user system, where the machine registered at a central site and that can be queried by the commerce site? Recognition of the consumer machine through combination of mac/ip range/provider
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You can try it out here: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo If you are a recognized as human you could perhaps try it via Tor.
I wish these google pages wouldn't automatically assume you speak some language based on your IP address - I get mine in German without any option to switch. Aren't there standards for setting language in web browsers?