reCAPTCHA and the Anonymous Experience

Author: dsr12

Score: 19

Comments: 7

Date: 2020-11-05 17:22:18

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blitblitblit wrote at 2020-11-05 17:24:13:

So not only does Google make tons of money by training AI for free, blocking Tor users, and being all around evil - but they're going to make website operators pay for reCAPTCHA now. Wow.

tinus_hn wrote at 2020-11-05 22:08:05:

Don’t forget tracking which is almost impossible to block and promoting Chrome by annoying its users less

m463 wrote at 2020-11-06 03:47:44:

I believe this is an opportunity. Say anonymous/private recaptcha software or services.

amasad wrote at 2020-11-05 19:46:18:

Exactly! They're making money on all sides. The training, the enterprise, and we actually pay them for GCP.

bootstraping wrote at 2020-11-05 22:24:25:

It seems they are (or slowly will start) charging all high volume users. Read this happened with Cloudflare too...

What makes them think they should start charging now?

Also, have you looked at hcaptcha.com? Cloudflare uses them.

ericmay wrote at 2020-11-05 21:48:18:

Can anyone comment on what the fee structure is?

amasad wrote at 2020-11-05 21:51:19:

$1 per 1000 calls. They gave us a discount, but at our scale it would still break the bank.