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ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago

CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
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    but if they do it’s a scandal waiting to happen

    That was my line of thought. If you pay for failed captchas, there are a few websites using it that’d deserve a bot failing them constantly.

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