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Maybe blame the bots and spammers that have led to a situation on some sites where aggressive recaptcha is the only defense?

• piyush_soni 8y ago
  But I thought that's what Google's promise was (hard for machines, easy for humans)?
• Rjevski 8y ago
  So far the only thing I saw that could break previous "squiggly text" style captchas was some research papers. I have yet to see any of it used in the wild. So I doubt spammers brought this upon us - the previous captchas were more than effective at keeping them at bay already. The real reason is shitty Google being greedy and needing someone to label their training data.
  • mrep 8y ago
    Reddit has tons of bots and I've heard Twitter is just as bad.
    • Rjevski 8y ago
      A lot of social media “bots” are actually human farms against which no captcha can defend.