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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 day ago

    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…

    • @Jericho_Kane
      4•1 day ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 day ago

      I’ve also left it open before as I imagine other folks do, click into something then get sidetracked by life.