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3d ago

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 million hours clicking on traffic lights 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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2d ago

2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'

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2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'

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3d 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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I always click wrong stuff first to see which captcha is training on my input and which one is actually checking what I click.
- how do you tell by doing that?
  
  If you click on the wrong stuff and it lets you through then it's training.
  
  Exactly. Or they gave up on you. But that's unlikely.

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