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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by karmacondon on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:22PM (#8696708)
If book-based or street view-based captchas go away, I suspect it will be because bots/spammers got better at solving them than humans

But, wait. Isn't that what we want? It seems like bots and spammers have a relatively small cost to a company like google, while digitizing books and house numbers is relatively valuable. I don't have numbers for a detailed cost-benefit analysis, but if bots get good enough to do time consuming work accurately, that's a win right?

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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by ademarre on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:32PM (#8697236)
That's like flying because you like airline food. No one flies if they don't have a destination. No one will put a captcha on their site if it doesn't tell computers and humans apart; that's its primary job.
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