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Wasn't recaptcha originally associated with Project Gutenberg's digitization efforts?
I guess not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Origin
Seems like a bait-and-switch. Do free labor for a good cause (PD books), turns out you're just growing Goolge's library which can be taken down at a whim.
This is so confusing. It doesn't explain how it works nor a demo page nor the reason behind why it went invisible.
The next best thing a search company can do is have every website willingly track their users' mouse and key movements, and then willingly send all of that data to the company's inbox. In return, Google provides them with a binary classifier trained on all of the user click-stream/click-move data which determines whether or not the user is a bot!
It's an OK deal for the website owner; it's a great deal for Google. Not to mention, the user is now sending anonymous data to Google, at the expense of the website's Privacy Policy.
Google gets website owners to willingly install live-cameras on every corner of their website, and then willingly send over all of the footage, in exchange for "protection" from bots. Cough The Government gets citizens to willingly fill out lengthy tax forms, and then willingly send over a bunch of money, in exchange for "protection" from criminals. Cough
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I see lot's of those on Tor browser. There's nothing about entering street numbers, just identifying images that include street numbers. But perhaps that's also valuable. And what about the other major types, such as rivers, mountains, store fronts and street signs?
It depends on whether you're presented with the v1/noscript version or the v2 captcha. Desktop users may prefer the noscript version since it's faster to fill out with a keyboard if you're already typing into a form anyway instead of having to switch to the mouse.
I always wondered how blind people entered captchas. Does this finally make captchas accessible?
What I want to know is what happens if you get 'trapped' in this invisible ReCAPTCHA? The most frequent encounters with CAPTCHA's I see are rejected API requests over VPN.
Then again, it's allow-more-and-retry on many pages already so nothing new in that regard.
I always wondered how blind people entered captchas. Does this finally make captchas accessible?
I'm curious now, will have to give it a whirl when I get into the office :D
Suspect Google will rely on their vast knowledge of people's browsing habits based off IP/account/ad-tracking/browser-fingerprinting to skip the user input aspects. Although that said, a screen reader won't have the standard physical interaction clues client-side that a user is a real person, mouse tracking for ex. is probably a moot point. Not really sure how Google will handle those, or if blind users will get a degraded always-on captcha experience.
Either that or a headless screen reader becomes the scraping/botting tool of choice.
While I like the idea of not having to deal with these annoying ReCAPTCHA prompts, something somehow feels "intrusive ?". I mean does this mean google is going to keep track of what I would be doing when I visit a site? Say for instance I am signing up for a website, does the password I enter get sent to google servers to be analyzed now?
>I mean does this mean google is going to keep track of what I would be doing when I visit a site? Oh buddy, I have bad news for you... https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/1716364?hl=en https://www.google.com/analytics/#?modal_active=none https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/solutions/measurement/