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Re:Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous by Artemis2 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:31PM (#7945872)
Google exploits ReCaptcha to recognize street numbers. When typing a numerical ReCaptcha, you are doing OCR for Google Maps for free.
Re:Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous by jdbernard on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:34PM (#7945891)
Well, not exactly for free. Its a trade. You're willing to donate your small amount of time to Google in exchange for Google providing security benefits to the website which you are attempting to use.