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“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”
Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary.. or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.
Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.
I'm not even doing captchas any more. eBay threw one at me last week so I bought the same item elsewhere.
REcaptcha isn't a captcha. It's an audiovisual skills test that robots can pass & many humans can't.
good for it...
add more layers and I'll do the same, close the tab and just go elsewhere. it's not worth the hassle.