Dear all, vi forwardo questo mio "rant" a proposito del nuovo sistema No CAPTCHA lanciato da Google. Buona lettura, ---a ----- NO CAPTCHA: YET ANOTHER RUSE DEVISED BY GOOGLE TO MAKE YOU TRAIN THEIR ROBOTS FOR FREE Short version: Question: What is “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”? Answer: A ruse devised by Google to extract some sweet, free, Mechanical Turk-like digital labor from its users. Long version: So far reCAPTCHA allowed Google to extract digital labor from users, i.e. to make users produce value for Google without them knowing. When you needed to retrieve the occasional password or to post a comment on certains blogs, you had to “verify that you were human” by typing in words that would ultimately help Google Books digitize texts, or detect house numbers to improve Google Street View. But people at Mountain View’s Googleplex heard reCAPTCHA could be frustrating to you, beloved user. So “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” was introduced. “No CAPTCHA” is a new system which does not burden you with deciphering distorted text. [...]
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