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If you only had to fill captchas to access google services you'd have a point No, in that case Google is providing the service to plenty of 3rd party websites
by j_s 9y ago
If you only had to fill captchas to access google services you'd have a point
No, in that case Google is providing the service to plenty of 3rd party websites completely unrelated to Google, who basically punt and wind up saying "do this work for Google for access".
- simias 9y agoRight, I'm not saying whether that's a good or a bad thing, I'm just pointing out that it doesn't make sense to say that it's fine to do "free work" for Google because they also provide other services for free. Those two things are mostly unrelated. If you use gmail but never solve captchas are you freeloading? What if I use adblock but I solve a lot of captchas, am I good? If I pay for Google's business "G suite" do I no longer have to solve captchas? If I don't use gmail or google search can I opt out of captchas?
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- j_s 9y agosay that it's fine to do "free work" for Google because they also provide other services for free That's not what I meant; my poorly communicated point was more about how nothing is really "free" (should have included the quotes earlier!).