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