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   R. Scott Pert (raymondpert@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:19:38 JST R. Scott Pert

   How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system

   > 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, according to Chuppl. "Re-captcha takes a pixel by pixel fingerprint of your browser, a realtime map of everything you do on the internet."
   https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html #surveillance