Android26d
'Are You Human?' How Google's reCAPTCHA Secretly Harvests Your Data
That’s part of a CAPTCHA test to check for bots. Google employs something similar called reCAPTCHA, but unfortunately, it might be nothing more than spyware in disguise. YouTuber “Chuppl ...
The Verge29d
Another reason to dislike reCAPTCHA.
This recent video from YouTuber Chuppl highlights a 2023 pre-print estimating people have wasted as many as 819 million hours solving reCAPTCHA since Google acquired it in 2009, as spotted earlier ...
TechRadar27d
"A tracking cookie farm for profit" - report claims reCAPTCHA has caused 819 million hours of wasted human time, and billions in Google profits
The report notes there are two common types of test, CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA - the first is the text-based challenges where users decipher scrambled characters, and the second is a more advanced ...