Google Has Finally “Killed” the CAPTCHA

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I put “killed” in quotes because it looks like the CAPTCHA box will technically still be there, but going forward, you won’t have to waste your time clicking images of storefronts, stop signs, and other nonsense. reCAPTCHA is now smart enough to figure out whether the user is a bot or human on its own by analyzing browser behavior, which doesn’t seem creepy at all.

Invisible CAPTCHA’s are the latest development in the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Google acquired reCaptcha back in 2009. It updated the system in 2013 to allow for the ubiquitous “I’m not a robot” checkbox that’s all over the internet. That version worked by determining the user’s humanity through their clicking style. If the click seemed fishy, a more elaborate test would be offered. But the Invisible CAPTCHA is able to recognize that a user is not a bot simply by analyzing their browsing behavior.
 
Would be even better if reCAPTCHA noted a series of successful solves, say 3-5, and then didn't require people to do it anymore from a given IP address/browser ident for a period of time, seems simple enough to code up but I ain't a programmer.

As for the humans vs bots thing, it's all machine learning from here on out as we teach our "Robot Overlords" exactly how best to solve us. :D
 
That one click I'm not a robot thing never works for me, it always asks me to click on rivers and street signs. It's annoying so I usually just stop whatever I was doing.
 
i know in previous times alot of googles captcha thing was based on your google cookie.
if you had a google accounted login saved in a cookie you would get easier/shorter captchas to do,
 
SvenBent said:
i know in previous times alot of googles captcha thing was based on your google cookie.
if you had a google accounted login saved in a cookie you would get easier/shorter captchas to do,
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Yes, this is how they roll.

"Oh, we don't have nearly as much tracking data on you. Here, teach are machine learning tools how to recognize letters/words/store fronts for us and be sure to allow us to track you more easily in the future. And remember to login in your browser as that would make it so much easier!"
 
What i hate even more is how i correctly click on the signs, and it still thinks I clicked incorrectly. The worst captcha ever
 
Speaking of frustration, this music and style in technology presentations is something I do not like. It seems more fitting for preschool than IT dealings.

Please stop.
 
bigstusexy said:
Speaking of frustration, this music and style in technology presentations is something I do not like. It seems more fitting for preschool than IT dealings.

Please stop.
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Get use to it, young adults these days heave to have things explained like they are in preschool :rolleyes:
 
Dumb. First I shouldn't be shocked that Google follows every keystroke enough to make a judgement my strokes are timed just irregularly enough to know its me let alone not automated.

Second, I just need to create a bot farm. Once I figure out how to do a controlled randomization that matches a human, with the mouse, keys, etc. I will just farm up a bunch of fake identies and fool the now hidden captcha.

Don't even need to do that, just farm keystrokes and mouse movement off of people gold farming games.
 
I was doing a captcha identifying storefronts and mountains and such things on a site the other day, and I literally had to re-do it 10 times, and still couldnt get in, and then decided, screw it, I'm going elsewhere.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I was doing a captcha identifying storefronts and mountains and such things on a site the other day, and I literally had to re-do it 10 times, and still couldnt get in, and then decided, screw it, I'm going elsewhere.
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ReCaptcha has convinced me that I do not know what a store front looks like. Maybe I've been buying online too much.
 
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