ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 days agoCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1229arrow-down1external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 days agoThis happened to me recently. Worse, there’s an error message saying I didn’t solve the CAPTCHA…but I wasn’t prompted for the CAPTCHA! I opened a bug report and the gov said “works for me” So, yeah, people breaking laws because they can’tsubmit legally required data to the gov due to reliance on faulty Google services is real.
This happened to me recently. Worse, there’s an error message saying I didn’t solve the CAPTCHA…but I wasn’t prompted for the CAPTCHA!
I opened a bug report and the gov said “works for me”
So, yeah, people breaking laws because they can’tsubmit legally required data to the gov due to reliance on faulty Google services is real.