> On January 6, 2020 at 9:17 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote:
> > But why in the world is recaptcha.net trying to harvest huge quantities > > of data from my computer? > > Now that's a good question! And the answer is, Goolag! (which beats encryption ransomware, I guess) reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. A "CAPTCHA" is a turing test to tell human and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, but hard for "bots" and other malicious software to figure out. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
