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Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans

Posted by timothy on from the destroy-all-humans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of CAPTCHAs for different kinds of users. In short, it makes your life easier if you're a human, and your work much harder if you're a bot. Unsurprisingly, Google wouldn't share too much detail as to how the new system works, aside from saying it uses advanced risk analysis techniques, actively considering the user's entire engagement (before, during and after) with the CAPTCHA. In other words, the distorted letters are not the only test."

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  1. Google can now see the future? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The CAPTCHA is influenced by what you do after you exit it?

  2. Re:Poor Granny... by GuldKalle · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the CAPTCHA, maybe you couldn't read it.

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  3. Plus the audio version by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    On those ones have you ever tried hitting the button that's supposed to say the captcha out loud just in case you can't read it?(Which is most of the time) I swear it sounds like some sort of inhuman moaning straight from the Necronomicon that would be more appropriate to summon some sort of demon.

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