@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 15 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-up1238arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]hackernews[email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish12•14 days agoWhat is infuriating, is that some government official website in my country used google captcha
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-214 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.
What is infuriating, is that some government official website in my country used google captcha
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.