Google releases reCAPTCHA v3 so you don’t have to look for street signs before entering a site

Bots are everywhere on the internet, executing various tasks: from indexing web pages for better search results to generating illegitimate traffic to boost ad revenue. The latter is just one type of activity Google is trying to prevent with its reCAPTCHA technology and now it’s releasing the third generation of its bot-fighting API that webmasters all over the world can integrate to their websites for free.

Until now, reCAPTCHA v2 would use algorithms to determine the validity of the incoming traffic and if it was deemed suspicious the users would receive a challenge before being allowed ...