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| ===reCAPTCHA=== | | ==See also== |
| [[wikipedia:ReCAPTCHA|reCAPTCHA]] was acquired by Google in 2009 and has since been used to protect websites from [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|botting]], crowdsource transcription work, and to mass train Google's other technical ventures such as artificial intelligence.<ref>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems.]</ref> Google faced criticism over this crowdsourcing and training for using unpaid labor from millions of daily users around the world, even sparking an ultimately unsuccessful class action lawsuit in Massachusetts in 2015, with the court dismissing the amount of time spent by each user completing a CAPTCHA as "something for which [no] reasonable consumer would expect to receive compensation".<ref>https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical</ref><ref>https://casetext.com/case/rojas-lozano-ex-rel-all-other-persons-similarly-situated-v-google-inc</ref>
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| A video published by YouTube channel CHUPPL sparked renewed controversy with a video released in December 2024. The video cites and details how reCAPTCHA [[wikipedia:Doxing|doxxes]] users and how resulting user data can end up in the hands of the US government for unknown purposes, claiming exploitation of an intentional loophole in Google's terms of service allowing them to transmit user device and application data under the guise of "general security purposes."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI&t=306s</ref> User data allegedly began being collected in 2014, when Google deployed reCAPTCHA v2, specifically the “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” i.e. "the checkbox CAPTCHA," which primarily uses [[wikipedia:HTTP_cookie|cookies]] to whitelist users who reCAPTCHA identifies as humans. This opens up additional security vulnerabilities as once a user is identified as a human, a bot can take over and be given unrestricted access to all sites using reCAPTCHA without having to fill a CAPTCHA itself.<ref>https://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-no-captcha-problem.html</ref>
| | *[[Advertising overload]] |
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| The type of cookies collected includes, but is not limited to:<ref name=":1">https://www.businessinsider.com/google-no-captcha-adtruth-privacy-research-2015-2</ref>
| | *[[Chromium]] |
| | | *[[Google Chrome]] |
| *Screen size and resolution, date, language, browser plug-ins, and all Javascript objects
| | *[[Google Drive]] |
| *IP address
| | *[[Google Maps]] |
| *CSS information from the page you are on
| | *[[Google Pixel]] |
| *A count of mouse and touch events
| | *[[Google Play]] |
| | | *[[HD Movie Purchases Google Movies/YouTube reduced to 480p on the web]] |
| This digital fingerprinting is nearly inescapable even for privacy focused consumers since, as of November 2024, reCAPTCHA is employed in 84% of all websites.<ref>https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/captcha</ref><blockquote>
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| "The implication is that Google isn’t just looking to identify whether you’re a human with its No CAPTCHA, but potentially exactly ''which human'' you are." - Lara O'Reilly<ref name=":1" />
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| </blockquote>A 2023 study collected data on newly admitted students to UC Irvine's School of Information & Computer Sciences over 13 months and concludes that reCAPTCHA does not provide real security for Google's client websites and has, over its 13 years of existence, cost users an estimated 819 million hours equating to nearly $6 billion USD in wages and 134 petabytes of bandwidth corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO<sub>2</sub>. The study further estimated Google's direct profits from reCAPTCHA to be "$888 billion USD from cookies and $8.75-32.3 billion USD per each sale of their total labeled data set."<ref name=":2">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911</ref><blockquote>
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| "It can be concluded that the true purpose of reCAPTCHAv2 is as a tracking cookie farm for advertising profit masquerading as a security service." - Searles, Prapty, and Tsudik<ref name=":2" />
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| </blockquote>Google has also been accused of allowing reCAPTCHA to accept users running Chromium web browsers more frequently than alternatives.{{Citation needed}}
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| * [[Android]] | |
| * [[Chromium]] | |
| * [[Google Chrome]] | |
| * [[Google Drive]] | |
| * [[Google Maps]] | |
| * [[Google Pixel]] | |
| * [[Google Play]] | |
| * [[HD Movie Purchases Google Movies/YouTube reduced to 480p on the web]] | |
| * [[reCAPTCHA]] | |
| * [[YouTube]] | |
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