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.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    14 天前

    So all I need to do to bot your sites is to farm accounts? Easy enough, people do that on Instagram at huge scales.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      2·
      14 天前

      Good luck. You’ll find that your farmed accounts can’t do much of anything, and will be quickly and automatically deleted.