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I would love to pay money (or do some sort of proof-of-work hashing) rather than solve Google's infuriating, privacy-hostile CAPTCHAs. I rather suspect that Goo
by kaffee 8y ago
I would love to pay money (or do some sort of proof-of-work hashing) rather than solve Google's infuriating, privacy-hostile CAPTCHAs. I rather suspect that Google, as an advertising and consumer-surveillance firm, gets rather a lot of information out of the system.
- bscphil 8y agoThat's a funny, very accurate point. I would absolutely pay 10c to have a service automatically bypass Google's CAPTCHA for me every time I encounter one.
- beardog 8y agoThey do train their AIs on the system, which is why we solve for so many store fronts, fire hydrants, etc.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoI definitely preferred it when recaptcha was helping archive.org digitize books for the good of humanity. Felt much more altruistic than helping Google train neural network.
- r3bl 8y agoThe rules were also so much easier. It's a bit difficult to miss two words displayed on an image. It's incredibly easy to miss a traffic light 30 meters away from the camera on such a tiny photo.