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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:53 PM Dec 2014

Google kills CAPTCHAs: Are we human or are we spammer?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/google_moves_beyond_text_puzzles_with_no_captcha_recaptcha/

Google has developed a new CAPTCHA-like system to allow people, and not automated software, into websites with only a single click.

The "No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA" offers a tick box for humans to check rather than distorted text to decipher. It's designed so that automated spam software is still fooled by it and gets stuck on the page, whereas humans can tick a box and continue through.

CAPTCHAs1 in all their various forms have been a feature of the web for years. The technology is designed to protect websites from spam and abuse by attempting to weeds out genuine visitors from robots and abusive scripts.

Users have typically been obliged to confirm they aren't robots by reading distorted text and typing it into a box.

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Google kills CAPTCHAs: Are we human or are we spammer? (Original Post) steve2470 Dec 2014 OP

There have been sites I've given up on Warpy Dec 2014 #1

+1 ! nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #2

Same here. Arkansas Granny Dec 2014 #3

Same here and my eyesight isn't even that bad Kalidurga Dec 2014 #6

Looks like it uses a registered email address with predefined questions seveneyes Dec 2014 #4

Just another way for Google to CAPTCHA your data for marketers. nt onehandle Dec 2014 #5

Warpy

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1. There have been sites I've given up on

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:57 PM

Dec 2014

because the stupid CAPTCHA box is too small or the letters are too distorted, completely unfriendly to those of us with less than perfect eyesight.

I'm delighted to see them go.