Google claims that it can identify a robot with just one
click. Captches-squiggled text that are used to find spambots. Although it is
an effective way to recognize automated bots, it greatly reduces the user
experience. To overcome these challenges, Google has designed a Turing Test
that can spot a bot requiring it to do very much simple like a “click on a
check box”
So how does a click of a check box…..can tell google whether you are a human or a robot?.
So how does a click of a check box…..can tell google whether you are a human or a robot?.
Google says that the user leave a lot of clues by
their way of interaction with the webpage, which reveal that they are actually
human, such as the movement of the cursor before a single click,IP address,
cookies,etc.. This new method is called “reCaptcha”.
Google has tested this reCaptcha in its various services such as wordpress and Humble Bundle(Game sale site), it had an accuracy of 60% in wordpress and 80% in Humble Bundle. As a backup plan if the reCaptcha fails, suppose if there are not enough clues then it automatically returns to the old captcha.
This isn’t still available for smartphones and tablets, instead it will show a collection of eight images and ask the user to find the cat, dogs, leaves etc. For desktop users it is based on the single click.
Google has tested this reCaptcha in its various services such as wordpress and Humble Bundle(Game sale site), it had an accuracy of 60% in wordpress and 80% in Humble Bundle. As a backup plan if the reCaptcha fails, suppose if there are not enough clues then it automatically returns to the old captcha.
This isn’t still available for smartphones and tablets, instead it will show a collection of eight images and ask the user to find the cat, dogs, leaves etc. For desktop users it is based on the single click.
Google has been rigorously testing it’s bot detection system for the last year or so, and in last October it revealed that it has integrated an automated bot-detection into its captchas to weed out “click fraud”.
This latest evolution may go too far for some. Privacy-conscious users won’t appreciate the reminder that Google can learn—or already knows—so much about them based only on simple clues they reveal in their online actions.But Google points out that it tracks the cursor movements only over the captcha widget and not the whole page. However the question remains…??
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