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Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed

cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers

Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.

Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.

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Mikina@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Do you pay for successful verification only, or even for failed ones?

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- Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Probably only sucessful ones.
  Google captchas have had multiple rounds (with it faking you out claiming you failed) for probably a decade. Every round of the game updates some confidence score which if you get it high enough lets you pass.
  This conversely means there is no way to fail, you just get stuck in an infinite loop of challenges if your score doesn’t get high enough.
  
  The only other alternative means of pricing it would see even valid users consume way more than one “verification” per actual completed captcha, since so many users have low enough scores to need multiple rounds of captcha even when completing them with perfect accuracy.
  I doubt they do this, but if they do it’s a scandal waiting to happen, besides also being very weird for any kind of statistic google certainly offers for their captcha.
  
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  - Mikina@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    but if they do it’s a scandal waiting to happen
    
    That was my line of thought. If you pay for failed captchas, there are a few websites using it that’d deserve a bot failing them constantly.
    
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Does that also work for the puzzle captchas? Do you have a link if so?

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- Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No it exclusively works with recaptcha github.com/dessant/buster
  
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Lol so now site admins pay more than the not farm companies pay to solve each one

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