A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking o…
The study focuses on the two most common forms of CAPTCHAs you'll find out in the wild through Google's reCAPTCHAv2: ...
When you solve captchas, your data could be collected and sold
Captchas are touted as anti-bot security measures, but they're allegedly doing far more nefarious stuff behind the curtain.
CAPTCHAs Are Ineffective and Collect Data for Ads: Study
CAPTCHAs, the familiar internet tests asking users to identify images or scrambled text to prove they’re human, have long ...
Google CAPTCHA Collecting And Selling Your Data Raises Big Privacy Concerns
This security measure, a common CAPTCHA method, is one of several techniques used to distinguish between human users and ...
"A tracking cookie farm for profit" - report claims reCAPTCHA has caused 819 million hours of wasted human time, and billions in Google profits
A for-profit cookie farm? The report notes there are two common types of test, CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA - the first is the ...
Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware
YouTuber "Chuppl" reports that Google's reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 challenges don't deter bots and do little more than demand users' internet data in exchange for access ...
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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s 2025, and we still have to deal with CAPTCHAs on the web, the online browsing ...