Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It is neither intended nor even stated to be intended for security.

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  • Gizmokid2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except, that’s most of its ad copy on Google’s own website?

    reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. Meanwhile, legitimate users will be able to login, make purchases, view pages, or create accounts and fake users will be blocked.

    It’s literally billed as a security measure for a website.

    www.google.com/recaptcha/about/

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    • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I see your perspective, but I don’t consider that security in the context of software, which may also explain why they don’t use that word, though I readily admit that it is technically security of a sort. The term usually implies authentication, authorization, and isolation.

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      • Gizmokid2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, except they do. Just because their simple ad copy omits it, doesn’t mean that’s not what they’re implying. It’s literally listed as one of their security products and also uses the term to talk about demos

        Security live demo

        cloud.google.com/security/products/recaptcha

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• Caboose12000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Where can I learn this power?

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just spent 3$ worth of bitcoin on NoCaptchaAI. I used their web extension on a server which had a browser opened and controlled by a custom webextension I made so that a solved challenge would be returned to a swarm of clients upon request

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    • gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your extension is archived, I’d rather not use it.

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      • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a custom extension solving my very specific problem on a specific internal website. It was never meant for you to use it, it’s just there to serve as inspiration to others

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