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CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] remington@beehaw.org 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This sounds like a conspiracy theory but I’d like to know more.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The study that they reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911 [PDF]

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago

They don't seem to actually identify the cookies as tracking (as opposed to just identifying that the account can bypass further challenges), just assuming that any third party cookie has a monetary tracking value.

It also appears to be unreviewed and unpublished a few years later. Just being in paper format and up on arXiv doesn't mean that the contents are reliable science.

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

we do so via a large-scale (over 3, 600 distinct users) 13-month real-world user study and post-study survey

results indicate that the website context directly influences (with statistically significant differences) solving time between pass- word recovery and account creation.

We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 8 points 2 days ago

It’s true. They make us work to identify data, we are checking for them not confirming, then they also track us.