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Research Findings:

  • reCAPTCHA v2 is not effective in preventing bots and fraud, despite its intended purpose
  • reCAPTCHA v2 can be defeated by bots 70-100% of the time
  • reCAPTCHA v3, the latest version, is also vulnerable to attacks and has been beaten 97% of the time
  • reCAPTCHA interactions impose a significant cost on users, with an estimated 819 million hours of human time spent on reCAPTCHA over 13 years, which corresponds to at least $6.1 billion USD in wages
  • Google has potentially profited $888 billion from cookies [created by reCAPTCHA sessions] and $8.75–32.3 billion per each sale of their total labeled data set
  • Google should bear the cost of detecting bots, rather than shifting it to users

"The conclusion can be extended that the true purpose of reCAPTCHA v2 is a free image-labeling labor and tracking cookie farm for advertising and data profit masquerading as a security service," the paper declares.

In a statement provided to The Register after this story was filed, a Google spokesperson said: "reCAPTCHA user data is not used for any other purpose than to improve the reCAPTCHA service, which the terms of service make clear. Further, a majority of our user base have moved to reCAPTCHA v3, which improves fraud detection with invisible scoring. Even if a site were still on the previous generation of the product, reCAPTCHA v2 visual challenge images are all pre-labeled and user input plays no role in image labeling."

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[–] GhostTheToast 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I still don’t get this one even after being linked to it so many times 😌🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someday you will, and you'll be one of the lucky 10.000 that day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Things that are common knowledge for you is not common knowledge for everyone and vice versa.

Instead of making fun of people for not knowing things, you should take the opportunity to teach so that you can get these fun moments of discovery and learning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

😮l made fun of people that did not know something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, I explained what the comic is trying to convey.

Just answering your question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lots of lucky ones i guess