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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

  • Thomas Claburn--Theregister.com
  • published date: 2024-07-24 06:33:11 UTC

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 ha…

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 hu… [+6112 chars]