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
Is that good?
Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.
Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.
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Really? 100 hours on average for each person on the globe, including babies, the elderly, and those in extreme poverty? That seems like a lot
It's over a 13 year period:
The researchers took the average completion time of 3.53 seconds across both image and behavior CAPTCHAs and multiplied that against a low-end estimate of 512 billion v1 and v2 reCAPTCHAs completed across the internet between 2010 and 2023, resulting in the following estimations of their impact on our lives:
It ends up being like, .175 seconds per day for the average internet user after some rough estimates
.175s x 365 x 13 ~= 830s per person over 13 year. Which is little less than 14min per user. Scaling by 8 billion people (which is way above the average amount over the period) that's 1.8 billion hours, which is 450 times less than the announced number
OP misquoted the article. It's 819m hours, not 819b. A rough estimate of the average number of internet users was 3.6b over that period rather than 8b, hence the ~450x discrepancy.
819m / 3.6b / 13 / 365 * 3600 = .1726 (rounded to .175 for a cleaner number)
Ridiculous, this number is clearly fake. Not saying that the highlighted subject is not an issue, it really is, but why lie about the number ? I'm sure the real number is impressive enough
I guess I do one or two a day on average, say 500 a year. At 5 seconds each, thats about 42 mins a year. I'm a fairly heavy user too. Recaptcha has been round for what, 15-20 years? So that's like 15 hours total at a rough guess..
I once spend at least 30 minute on a single captcha that wasn't working. Also warcraft for example has been played like 9million years or something. I know it's not really comparable, but it sounds just as insane
I’ve also left it open before as I imagine other folks do, click into something then get sidetracked by life.