CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.
Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.
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A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that wasted 819 million hours of people's time to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
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