mox@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up1731file-text
arrow-up1731external-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 · 1 year agomessage-square89linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·1 year agoI always click wrong stuff first to see which captcha is training on my input and which one is actually checking what I click.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agohow do you tell by doing that?
minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 year agoIf you click on the wrong stuff and it lets you through then it’s training.
minus-squareddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoExactly. Or they gave up on you. But that’s unlikely.
I always click wrong stuff first to see which captcha is training on my input and which one is actually checking what I click.
how do you tell by doing that?
If you click on the wrong stuff and it lets you through then it’s training.
Exactly. Or they gave up on you. But that’s unlikely.