Security News > 2024 > July > Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
2024-07-24 06:33
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 billions.…
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