„Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2“
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911
„In terms of cost, we estimate that – during over 13 years of its
deployment – 819 million hours of human time has been spent on
reCAPTCHA, which corresponds to at least $6.1 billion USD in
wages. Traffic resulting from reCAPTCHA consumed 134 Petabytes
of bandwidth, which translates into about 7.5 million kWhs of
energy, corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2. In addition,
Google has potentially profited $888 billion USD from cookies and
$8.75-32.3 billion USD per each sale of their total labeled data set.
[…
Ultimately] it can be concluded that reCAPTCHAv2
presents no real security.
Given that:
(1) reCAPTCHAv2 is negatively perceived by most
users,
(2) its immense cost, and
(3) its susceptibility to bots,
our
results prompt a natural conclusion:
reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology
should be deprecated.“
graste
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2025-02-09 20:38:35 UTC
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