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<blockquote>"It's an arms race between site owners and spammers; users lose." - Jeremy Elson<ref name=":0" /></blockquote> | <blockquote>"It's an arms race between site owners and spammers; users lose." - Jeremy Elson<ref name=":0" /></blockquote> | ||
According to a study by Searles et al., "...it can be concluded that reCAPTCHAv2 presents no real security.".<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> Datadome found that half of passed CAPTCHAs were completed by bots.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tester |first=Paige |date=18 July 2022 |title=50% of passed reCAPTCHAs are completed by bots? |url=https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/50-passed-recaptchas-completed-by-bots/ |url-status= | According to a study by Searles et al., "...it can be concluded that reCAPTCHAv2 presents no real security.".<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> Datadome found that half of passed CAPTCHAs were completed by bots.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tester |first=Paige |date=18 July 2022 |title=50% of passed reCAPTCHAs are completed by bots? |url=https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/50-passed-recaptchas-completed-by-bots/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260219130955/https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/50-passed-recaptchas-completed-by-bots/ |archive-date=19 Feb 2026 |access-date=9 Apr 2026 |website=DataDome}}</ref> In response, the latest CAPTCHAs are using aggregated data of browsing history to rate a user's "humanness", presenting concerns around tracking and privacy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 April 2026 |title=How CAPTCHAs work {{!}} What does CAPTCHA mean? |url=https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/how-captchas-work/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260401170306/https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/how-captchas-work/ |archive-date=1 April 2026 |access-date=9 April 2026 |website=Cloudflare}}</ref> | ||
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