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ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months 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

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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

www.pcgamer.com

ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months ago
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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
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    A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed

    https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers

    Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.

    Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.

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      Does that also work for the puzzle captchas? Do you have a link if so?

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        No it exclusively works with recaptcha https://github.com/dessant/buster

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      Lol so now site admins pay more than the bot farm companies pay to solve each one

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