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<blockquote>"It's an arms race between site owners and spammers; users lose." - Jeremy Elson<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>Overall, CAPTCHA technology has been shown to waste human time with only marginal security improvement.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Searles |first=Andrew |last2=Prapty |first2=Renascence Tarafder |last3=Tsudik |first3=Gene |date=21 Nov 2023 |title=Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2 |url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911 |journal=Preprint}}</ref>{{Citation needed}} | <blockquote>"It's an arms race between site owners and spammers; users lose." - Jeremy Elson<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>Overall, CAPTCHA technology has been shown to waste human time with only marginal security improvement.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Searles |first=Andrew |last2=Prapty |first2=Renascence Tarafder |last3=Tsudik |first3=Gene |date=21 Nov 2023 |title=Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2 |url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911 |journal=Preprint}}</ref>{{Citation needed}} | ||
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The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |website=W3C}}</ref> | The [[wikipedia:World_Wide_Web_Consortium|World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) releases a periodic report on the Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA technology. Their 2021 report concluded that "traditional CAPTCHA continues to be challenging for people with disabilities, but also that it is increasingly insecure and arguably now ill suited to the purpose of distinguishing human individuals from their robotic impersonators."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2021 |title=Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA |url=https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ |website=W3C}}</ref> It is important for websites to be able to keep unwanted bots from accessing their sites, however CAPTCHA may not be the best way to do so. | ||
===Data privacy concerns=== | ===Data privacy concerns=== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Data collection]] | [[Category:Data collection]] | ||
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