A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
www.pcgamer.com
Is that good?

Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.

Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.

  • Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    86·
    11 months ago

    I love how it has taken this long for media to cover this issue. I thought this was common knowledge for about a decade

    • blakenong@lemmings.worldBanned from communityEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      I stopped having any faith in google when Gmail came out and I noticed ads related to the content of my email. It would be naive to think that data usage was limited to showing targeted ads.