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Computer Vision guy here. Okay so you've made some improvements for normal users.

The captchas are still the old same, just not shown everytime. Still can be cracked with latest neural net techniques. The visual matching stuff can be guessed 6/10 times.

You still have audio captchas, that can be cracked.

If all fails you still have cheap labour from third world country. I don't see why this is revolutionary?

Google will now have their captchas present on every site and start logging user behavior in the name of identifying bots. Who says they won't use the data to drive their ad empire?



Even if the success rate of detecting robots stays the same, I would say this is still a win because the majority of humans won't have to mess with it any longer.

Even better: those with various disabilities won't have to mess with it. My parents' only disability that I know of is near-complete computer illiteracy and I can tell you from experience that every time they're presented with a normal CAPTCHA it's like somebody just handed them a Rubik's Cube and told them to solve it before they can create a profile. In every case I know of, they just turn the computer off and walk away. Now, these are what I would call normal humans (don't tell them I ever said that) so I can only imagine how aggravated those with visual and/or auditory problems get when presented with a crazy CAPTCHA. And when your revenue comes from getting people to submit these, I can see it still being a boon to the website, even if all they did was lower the barrier of entry for humans.




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