CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
www.pcgamer.com A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
Is that good?
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Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.
Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.
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I always click wrong stuff first to see which captcha is training on my input and which one is actually checking what I click.
27 0 Replyhow do you tell by doing that?
12 0 ReplyIf you click on the wrong stuff and it lets you through then it's training.
28 0 ReplyExactly. Or they gave up on you. But that's unlikely.
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