Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billi…
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actual inventors of calculus: i would have committed actual murder to have one of these counting machines of yours
I mean, I'm sure that plenty of the people I know do but I don't know that they do
sigh I wish people were interesting enough that I'd want to have 5 minute conversations with them
shut up, like 25% of the people I'm around won't speak English that well, and the rest would have no interest in what I'm interested in
why the hell should I do that, I'm not gonna get joy from discussing the weather or the state of the economy or engineering crap or sports
no, YOURE a fucking idiot, that you think I should waste my time on stupid crap that doesn't matter instead of investing my time in the stupid crap that doesn't matter that I enjoy. If what I enjoy doesn't intersect with what the rest of humanity enjoys, so be it
no I wouldn't, and you want me to waste my time
why don't I just blow my brains out\< retard retard retard give me the fucking wheel