https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:22:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1607008938-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1607008938-1 let's take a moment to acknowledge that none, none, of Google's services are "free". they are making money hand over fist with ad collection data, and happily sell the profile they build of you via your emails and search histories to marketing companies. Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:22:00 +0000 Jack https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1429443429-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1429443429-1 Unfortunately, the human verification you use for this comment field is solvable by wolfram alpha, so it is clearly possible to build a bot to defeat it, rendering it useless. Maybe reCAPTCHA is a necessary evil? Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:37:00 +0000 anon https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1415370900-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1415370900-1 @Lucas : I am sorry but I do not seem to get your point here. Indeed, I find it immoral that Google make money by having people that asked nothing work for them for free. And, on the contrary, I would find no moral issue with them charging their user for the services they use, is there something wrong with that conception? The fact that I do not use Google's services is irrelevant in that analysis, all it does is that a decision from Google to charge their users would not affect me. If I was a user of their services, I would not like such a decision, but it would not make it right or wrong in any way, only unpleasant to me. Also, I hope you will pardon me for not replying to your comment in the same insulting tone you use, as I am trying to act as a civilised man on the Internet, as I do AFK. Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:35:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1415368905-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1415368905-1 How odd... you do care about people not being exploited by Google having them to work HEAVILY decrypting an almost impossible huge word in reCAPTCHA, but you wouldn't give a f*** if billions of people started to be charged for services they use everyday for free, just because YOU do not use them. I'm proud to see someone that is really worried about common good and justice here. Seriously, what a piggy sensationalist text that was. I would be ashamed by now. Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:01:00 +0000 Lucas https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1385729634-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1385729634-1 @pat : Yes, entering a correct control word and writing crap for the word to digitalize in order to destroy reCAPTCHA's commercial digitalization quality is exactly what I am suggesting. @Ron : That existed, it was named reCAPTCHA, and it was used for the common good of humanity. Until Google bought it and start using it for their unknown, thus questionable purpose. Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:53:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1385724750-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1385724750-1 Instead of all complaining here, write a brand new captcha that can not be cracked by the spammers and provide it for FREE to everybody Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:32:00 +0000 Ron https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1384894914-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1384894914-1 well that comment about you not caring if they charge or not is irrelevant because I'm sure you were able to understand the point I was trying to make. Google offers a free captcha API, so instead of having the webmaster pay for the service (and asking users to pay to view his website), google makes their money back by doing this. And since it is well-known how recaptcha works, a person that does not want to participate can always enter whatever he wants as the control word and verification will still succeed. I understand what you are trying to say. But the word Exploitation seems pretty heavy to me. By typing the 5th letter in the sequence shown before attempting to submit that comment, I have no idea if someone is making money in the back of this. In the end it really doesn't matter since I have to enter the letter one way or the other. So that wouldn't qualify as "exploitation" Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:01:00 +0000 pat https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1384878694-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article92/dont-recaptcha/#c1384878694-1 @pat : They could charge for their search engine, I would not care since I do not use it much. They could charge for their email service, I would care even less since I do not use it. In fact they could charge for anything, I do not depend on any of their services at all. Yes, they need to make money, and they do. For instance, with Google Search, they make money using ads on the search result page. But reCAPTCHA is something else, which get imposed upon people that did not choose to use Google's services, which is a big difference. I have no objection in Google using their user's brains, but using free people's brains is wrong. Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:31:00 +0000 Tanguy