The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy. We’ve all tried to log ...

The “CAPTCHA” has infuriated web users for years: It’s that login test that asks you to type in a hard-to-read sequence of letters or numbers in order to prove are not a robot. Get one letter wrong ...

Last time you signed for an account for nearly anything online, you were probably faced with the dreaded reCAPTCHA widget: A box featuring two (or sometimes more!) wiggly, obscured, scrambled looking ...

Google’s reCAPTCHA tool claims to block bot access on millions of websites across the internet, but what are its true intentions? The internet can be a maddening place. Whether it is websites that ...

Google has simplified the classic CAPTCHA challenge-response test, replacing those annoyingly distorted phrases with a simple question: Are you a robot? CAPTCHAs, which decipher humans from spambots, ...