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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)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I'm a simple guy. If a website I visit uses any kind of captcha other than Cloudflare's Turnstile, then I close that website and don't use it ever again. I'm not interested in wasting five minutes picking which squares have busses in them because ReCaptcha has decided I have to do the captcha 200 times.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is infuriating, is that some government official website in my country used google captcha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This happened to me recently. Worse, there's an error message saying I didn't solve the CAPTCHA...but I wasn't prompted for the CAPTCHA!

I opened a bug report and the gov said "works for me"

So, yeah, people breaking laws because they can'tsubmit legally required data to the gov due to reliance on faulty Google services is real.

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