You/we (as users) are being compensated by being permitted onto whatever service is being gatekept by Recaptcha. We profit further by having that service not be completely tainted by bots. Sure, recaptcha ain’t even close to perfect and can be easily bypassed, but any barrier of entry is better than none at all.
Google profits by getting free training for their models.
And the service provider profits by saving on bandwidth, moderation etc., which in turn benefits the users too in the form of a less degraded service.
There are many things to dislike about Google and what they are doing to the web. Recaptcha should not even be in your top 100.
That’s a huge chunk of the internet you’re filtering there, including plenty of legitimate sites. Care to explain why you dislike Recaptcha in particular that much?
Huge chunk… not really. People like me who are hardcore into privacy always knew Google uses it as free data training, and to track users across the whole internet. I do not like either reasons. Unless I MUST for unavoidable reason with no alternative, I will keep things that way.
the thing about Recaptcha is that it didn’t always gate keep a google provided service, so that logic doesn’t really work. i agree though that we all benefit from less bots.
I’ve been screaming about this since I found out Re:CAPTCHA was using us to train AI. We should definitely be compensated.
Let me be the Devil’s advocate here.
You/we (as users) are being compensated by being permitted onto whatever service is being gatekept by Recaptcha. We profit further by having that service not be completely tainted by bots. Sure, recaptcha ain’t even close to perfect and can be easily bypassed, but any barrier of entry is better than none at all.
Google profits by getting free training for their models.
And the service provider profits by saving on bandwidth, moderation etc., which in turn benefits the users too in the form of a less degraded service.
There are many things to dislike about Google and what they are doing to the web. Recaptcha should not even be in your top 100.
Recaptcha is definitely one of the big reasons I have Google domains blocked from loading up on uBO/Firefox, or as I call it, uBO plus Firefox.
That’s a huge chunk of the internet you’re filtering there, including plenty of legitimate sites. Care to explain why you dislike Recaptcha in particular that much?
Huge chunk… not really. People like me who are hardcore into privacy always knew Google uses it as free data training, and to track users across the whole internet. I do not like either reasons. Unless I MUST for unavoidable reason with no alternative, I will keep things that way.
the thing about Recaptcha is that it didn’t always gate keep a google provided service, so that logic doesn’t really work. i agree though that we all benefit from less bots.