On: Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

[oarsinsync]

Do you have any stats on cart abandonment rate, and/or how that changed after you enabled recaptcha?

[dheera → oarsinsync]

"Cart abandonment"

Why is this a bot-specific thing? I abandon shopping carts as a human all the time, including especially:

* If you require a registration and login to checkout

* If your UI is too hard or clunky to use

* If shipping fees are higher than what I think is fair

* If there are additional non-upfront fees

[luckylion → dheera]

I think that was the parent's point: humans will likely abandon carts more often if they need to solve a captcha to advance to the check out.