If you've been on the internet long enough you most likely will have tried to solve a CAPTCHA test before, so now you've probably been wondering, where are those pesky CAPTCHAs now? The simple answer to that: Robots got smarter, but then again that was to be expected. In specifics, just like the previous versions of CAPTCHAS before it bots we once again able to solve those tests better than us therefore we had to scrap that idea and come up with a new one.
This time, reCAPTCHA v3 features a relatively unique way to differentiate humans and robots, this time without the annoying popup tests instead, identifying users based on their activity and behavior across the site. Sounds creepy right? And it most likely is, but then again no one ever went on the internet looking for privacy. This version of reCAPTCHA works because there's no easy test that a bot can easily work its way around, now there's a program in the background that is constantly running and monitoring your behaviors on the web page. This is more of an invisible test that is near impossible to fail, well, unless you're a bot. Compared to humans bots are able to click around the page rapidly and type out sentences and paragraphs in a blink of an eye, the invisible test detects this kind of bot-ish behavior and flags it. From there the system will send out a previous version of CAPTCHA for the bot to solve, or in the case that a superhuman does access the site and is able to type out a paragraph in seconds, they'll still be able to access the site without being flagged as a bot.
The end-all is, as long as you're on the web, you are being tracked, we know who you are and we know you're not a bot... or are you?
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