CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
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#2That made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google.
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#3You can get people to do almost anything if you lie to them that it's
for "security".
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#4You can get people to do almost anything if you lie to them that it's for "security".
Except captcha is not supposed to be security for the user, but security for the website.
But in the end it is not (effective) security for a website, is an antifeature for users and is profit for google.
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#5You can get people to do almost anything if you lie to them that it's for "security".
Except captcha is not supposed to be security for the user, but security for the website. But in the end it is not (effective) security for a website, is an antifeature for users and is profit for google.
As a website developer and host, I can assure you recaptcha works very well to stop spam and automated login requests. It is not perfect, but no system is.
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#6What's the alternative?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except captcha is not supposed to be security for the user, but security for the website. But in the end it is not (effective) security for a website, is an antifeature for users and is profit for google.
As a website developer and host, I can assure you recaptcha works very well to stop spam and automated login requests. It is not perfect, but no system is.
yeah, a sufficiently motivated attacker can deploy some countermeasures to bypass it, but only really worth it for targeted attacks. Anyone who has a form on the internet knows that without any sort of captcha, you get lots of stupid bots just typing in jumbo. Likely you could tone back the captchas and still get a similar result in stopping the dumb bots[0]
[0] on my contact page my email is protected via a custom cypher. if the bots execute javascript and wait 0.5s they can read it, but most don't. It’s the dumbest PoW imaginable, but it works
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#8What's the alternative?
Building your own captcha or running one that doesn't sell your users data to the highest bidder?
What a time where people on a site called "Hacker News" ask such a question..
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It’s not three years, it’s thirteen.
> A lifetime value of $888 billion for all of reCAPTCHAv2's tracking cookies produced between 2010 and 2023.