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The Register (theregister@geeknews.chat)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 20:07:00 JST The Register Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billi…
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