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> It makes me feel like I'm being used to do free work for Google - like a digital miner of sorts. They are providing you a service--preventing spam bots from
by coldpie 9y ago
> It makes me feel like I'm being used to do free work for Google - like a digital miner of sorts.
They are providing you a service--preventing spam bots from abusing services that you want to use--and are using your proof-of-work as payment. I don't see the problem.
- corobo 9y agoThey are providing the website I'm visiting a service, not me. Spambots aren't really my personal issue - the site either sorts it or the userbase goes elsewhere. I don't really mind captchas aside from the new ones that Google's doing, the "Keep clicking roads until there are no roads anymore" ones, just devil's advocate.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoThat sounds like they're providing a service for a website, and the website is passing on the bill to you.
- coldpie 9y agoI don't see a meaningful difference between these phrasings.