Any website still using reCaptcha is voluntarily increasing Googles stock price with no value to their business or real customers.

https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html

#privacy

@joeo10 My impression is that no major websites actually ever followed that HTTP header. Yes, they are enshittifying their product, but this isn't an example of it.

@patrickcmiller Fun fun, more Google emails to block email from due to spam!

@ryanc Working on cleanup tasks that improve stability and correctness is the reason I switch companies to get promotions.

I can describe exactly the same work in an interview and it is accepted.

But... it means worse than 0 for promotion because promotion committees think that the missing activity after their process discounts improvements is evidence of low performance.

@kaia If I am never going to click on an ad, then I am costing everyone in the industry money by letting ads load and it is costing me money in electricity to see the ad. It is more ethical for me to block them completely, and save everyone electricity and money.