The internet is an interesting place. We’ve spoken about a lot of issues in class that are quite serious, but it always seems to be the simplest things that catch my attention. Talking about online privacy was an interesting topic, but for some reason I’m much more interested in stuff like the article, Google develops invisible web security Captcha form. I’m not sure why this is so interesting to me, but I think it’s awesome. The article talks about Captcha forms, the small check box or otherwise “prove you’re not a robot” forms, completely or very nearly completely disappearing in the near future. Proving not to be a robot is a very valuable feature on some sites as it can be used to prevent automated password attempts as well as some other things, so I’m completely happy that there is some system in place to check for this. Google has developed some system of checking the way a person interacts with a website in order to bypass the need for Captcha forms. I’ll admit that the amount of information companies like Google can get from us from small things like this is somewhat unnerving, but I tend to side with progress over most things. The article does not go into much detail on how this is being accomplished, so unfortunately, I can’t provide any technical information here.
This article was interesting to me in a way that I don’t fully understand. I almost never see these Captcha boxes or fill in the blank forms, but hearing that they’re going away is great news to me. The disturbance to my day on the rare occasion that I do see one of these forms is pretty much nonexistent. They used to be more of a problem when trying to look at words that are nearly unreadable. I have on several occasions refreshed the Captcha three or four times, but even this was not a big issue. I think knowing that the internet is getting slightly more user friendly is what makes me so interested. Even if I get very little benefit from this, I’m glad little progresses like this are still happening somewhere.
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3/13/2017 03:06:28 pm
This was an interesting post to read, I am excited to hear that captchas will be going away. Like you I am happy to see that the internet is getting a little more user friendly. I remember a few years ago being really frustrated with captchas which had blended words and numbers, they were really hard to read and I would sometimes need to refresh captcha because I typed it wrong or I could not read it. I think not using captchas will make my user experience better when I signup for a new website.
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Joseph Molina
4/1/2017 06:15:55 pm
It is crazy to hear that CAPTCHA will one day be non existant. I recall watching a video on Youtube in which a robot actually clicked on one of "prove you are not a robot" checkbox, so that there already proved that checkboxes are not the most powerful forms of human verification. It is interesting to see where this progress may take us.
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