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I am not a robot!: The complete history of CAPTCHA Kindle Edition

by Alberto Carretero (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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You've probably been stressed a lot having to confirm that it's not a Robot for Recaptcha, being forced to identify words or click on a store front, identify cars, traffic lights, signs and everything else but when you miss one of them, you end up clicking eternally on the figures, working for the machine until it convinces itself.

But why did they invent this system?

Captcha is a security system to block the access of robots or algorithms that dirty the statistics and relevance of importance of the system because today more than half of the internet traffic is coming from these Robots.

Robots are usually developed to access a certain site several times, infinitely faster than people and have varied functions such as buying tickets for shows for parallel resale at a higher value, creating fakes on social networks and sending thousands of unwanted emails.

Captcha is an application to help fight these robots, are lines of code inserted in the sites that communicate with the server and does the user check, in this short but valuable eBook, you will know the whole story behind this tool from the beginning until its continuous development by being part of Google, a very interesting story and that has changed the borders of the internet since its inception and for example helped digitize the entire collection of newspapers of The New York Times since 1851, did you know it? So, come with me in this eBook and learn all about using this awesome use of this system.
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    6 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    August 9, 2020
  5. File size
    572 KB
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    Enabled
  7. Word Wise
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08FHVM2NS
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 9, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 572 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 6 pages

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