• snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    He touches on my major issue with all these companies, data mining without compensating the people that created that data. I have to pay for the operating system, get served ads, AND you get to make extra money off my information too? This kind of shenanigans would be tolerable with a free OS, or maybe one that compensated you like brave browser. The blatant fleecing of the consumer here is sickening. I’m glad data mining your screenshots is the last straw for people.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve been screaming about this since I found out Re:CAPTCHA was using us to train AI. We should definitely be compensated.

      • Terry@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        Let me be the Devil’s advocate here.

        You/we (as users) are being compensated by being permitted onto whatever service is being gatekept by Recaptcha. We profit further by having that service not be completely tainted by bots. Sure, recaptcha ain’t even close to perfect and can be easily bypassed, but any barrier of entry is better than none at all.

        Google profits by getting free training for their models.

        And the service provider profits by saving on bandwidth, moderation etc., which in turn benefits the users too in the form of a less degraded service.

        There are many things to dislike about Google and what they are doing to the web. Recaptcha should not even be in your top 100.