Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't pay Public School fees

Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by ForHackernews on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:47AM (#18616365)

Are there any good alternatives to reCAPTCHA? If I remember correctly, it started as an academic/nonprofit from Carnegie Melon to digitize books, but then somehow got acquired by Google.

Have any academic groups looked at offering a replacement?

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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by lwansbrough on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:57AM (#18616413)

Computer puzzles are dead. AI is too good. Anomaly detection is the future. Track your users’ behaviour yourself, find outliers, handle them appropriately.

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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by Rjevski on Saturday December 08, 2018 @06:09AM (#18634768)

Repost of my comment above:

"Squiggly letters" captchas are still fine. There's a lot of FUD around AI & ML breaking them but I have yet to find an off-the-shelf tool that can break them; and so do the spammers. Sure, you might break them if you pay a team of computer vision scientists for a few months but that isn't profitable for spammers, so even though they are technically breakable, in practice they're still good enough to thwart spam & bruteforce.

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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by expertentipp on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:57AM (#18616683)

The web has become fraudsters against bots, leaving humans excluded. The few humans left on the web are hugged to death by ad and tracking networks.

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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by alias_neo on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:59AM (#18616691)

Sounds like some dystopian policy to undermine non-compliance in the general population.

Someone should write a fiction on it.

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