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#reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
#Google acquired reCAPTCHA in 2009 and used it to digitize #GoogleBooks and improve #GoogleStreetView by processing photos of street signs and house numbers.
By 2025, reCAPTCHA is easily defeated by bots. Yet Google continues to offer it because reCAPTCHA has evolved into a tracking tool that collects user data and generates billions in revenue for Google
boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca

reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profitsBoing Boing

#AI

Today #reCaptcha forced me (for the first time) to select a obviously wrong picture:

The question was about pedestrian crossing, and I was forced to put a checkmark on picture of a restricted area road marking (area surrounded by a solid like with stripes inside, like "J" on gettingaroundgermany.info/zeic or korkortonline.se/en/theory/roa )

Anybody still want self-driving cars?

German Traffic Signs and Signals (Page 2 of 2) - Brian's Guide to Getting Around Germanywww.gettingaroundgermany.info

I was about to make a #donation to #signal, a #FOSS #software, but at the last step I've seen that it is protected by #reCAPTCHA, which is a #Google service.

I do not want to accept Google's #privacy policy, that's why I'm using Signal and not #whatsapp or others #GAFAM services. So unfortunately, if I cannot avoid Google to make a donation to Signal, I will avoid the donation.

Why is the donation service protected by Google?

Please, #help to make my message heard by @signalapp : change your donation system, really please. I want to support you... Kindly.

Retoots and reposts are welcome :)

#reCAPTCHA - 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in #Google profits. By 2025, reCAPTCHA is easily defeated by bots. Yet Google continues to offer it because reCAPTCHA has evolved into a tracking tool that collects user data and generates billions in revenue for Google boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca

reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profitsBoing Boing

→ reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca

“By 2025, reCAPTCHA is easily defeated by bots. Yet Google continues to offer it because reCAPTCHA has evolved into a tracking tool that collects user data and generates billions in revenue for Google […]”

#human #time #profits #reCAPTCHA #bots #tracking #data #Google

reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profitsBoing Boing