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
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Is that good?

Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.

Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.

  • Flying Squid
    55•2 days ago

    I had to go through seven captcha screens a couple of days ago just to apply for a fucking job.

    If I wasn’t so desperate for work, I would have said fuck it. I hate it.

    • Amon
      23•2 days ago

      It’s the first qualification you need to have

      • Flying Squid
        19•2 days ago

        I guess so, but I was starting to think maybe I was a robot after about the fourth.