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Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by icefo on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:25AM (#22846990)
As usual you shouldn't depend on Google for anything (especially if it's free) but I wonder what motivated them to charge for reCAPTCHA.

For Gmaps I could see the reason: we have the best map so you're going to pay a lot of money if you want to use it.

But I fail to see the reason for reCAPTCHA if they still intend to build their self driving car: the more classified data they have about the world the better and reCAPTCHA is probably inexpensive to run.

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Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by Cyberdog on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:33AM (#22847016)
The article hinted at this possibility, but perhaps Google has been using reCAPTCHA to train their systems for so long that the value of identifying yet another stoplight or crosswalk is no longer worth the cost of running the service to them.
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