mox@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 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-square75fedilinkarrow-up1697file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1697external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.commox@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIf you read the paper this is based on, there’s little reason to think this. It’s just supposition by the authors in an unpublished arXiv paper. Google already has tracking cookies for advertising all over the place. Capturing behavior on a captcha challenge is of little extra utility.
If you read the paper this is based on, there’s little reason to think this. It’s just supposition by the authors in an unpublished arXiv paper.
Google already has tracking cookies for advertising all over the place. Capturing behavior on a captcha challenge is of little extra utility.