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Make Tech Easier - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 5:25 PM
Google Recaptcha Gets an Update with No Verification Tasks
There isn’t anyone who visits websites regularly on the Internet who hasn’t
encountered a Google Recaptcha one too many times. It can be annoying when you
just want to get to a website and are stopped by the pop-up asking you to check
a box, type in a word, or solve a puzzle to prove you’re human.
The good news is that Google has updated the system to Recaptcha v3, a system
that requires no participation on the part of the visitor to the website.
Are You a Human or a Bot?
Recaptchas stem from Captchas, a system of testing if a site visitor is a human
or a bot by requiring some type of action to be done that could only be done by
a human.
This led to Google developing Recaptchas that had a dual objective. While they
were testing human vs. bot, when they were displaying the words, they were also
checking the validity of words that had been scanned in using OCR software
while converting printed books to ebooks.
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However, the Recaptchas don’t always use words in the current versions and seem
to be more along the lines of Captchas and just determining human vs. bot.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of clicking a box to indicate you’re human, while
other times it’s solving a puzzle or clicking all the images that you see that
contain a certain object, like a car or a street sign. In the effort of making
it more involved, it seemed to only get more difficult to solve and get through.
Recaptcha v3
Instead of asking the site visitor to do all the work, Recaptcha will now do
the work and will let website owners know whether their users seem to be humans
or bots by generating a score, and they can then act accordingly.
“Recaptcha
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returns a score for each request without user friction,” said Google. “The
score is based on interactions with your site and enables you to take an
appropriate action for your site.”
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Traffic will be ranked with a score from 0.0 to 1.0, with 1.0 being the best
type of interaction to have and 0.0 being the worst, indicating the traffic is
most likely bots.
Website owners can create scripts that will perform actions to produce the
traffic score. If the site gets a low score, two-factor authentication or email
verification can be used as a login to keep the bots out.
Additionally, website owners can create a script for various different parts of
their website to evaluate what part bots may be using. If it’s determined the
bots are on a product review page, Recaptcha can identify the fake reviews and
remove them to improve the site’s integrity.
What It Means for You
Perhaps the best part of Recaptcha v3 is that it means no extra work on the
part of the site visitor. You won’t be asked to retype words exactly, solve
puzzles, click boxes, or eliminate pictures of traffic signs.
What do you think of the new Google Recaptcha? Are you pleased to not have to
fulfill any verification tasks just to use a site? Or was this never much of a
bother to you? Let us know what you think of Recaptcha v3 in the comments.
Image Credit: I’m not a robot via
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