The Texas Tribune4d
Part of pro-Palestinian student art exhibit at UNT removed amid antisemitism complaints by state lawmakers
Five GOP lawmakers who targeted the exhibit also called for the cancellation of the “Palestinian Children and the Politics of ...
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 ...
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 ...
tech27d
Study Exposes Privacy Risks and Ineffectiveness of Google’s reCAPTCHA System
A recent study from the University of California, Irvine, titled “Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,” has revealed concerning truths about Google’s reCAPTCHA ...
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 ...