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Don't you think that if this data was known to be widely and mostly beneficial, reCaptcha would be falling all over themselves to grab the good PR? The fact tha
by jrm4 4y ago
Don't you think that if this data was known to be widely and mostly beneficial, reCaptcha would be falling all over themselves to grab the good PR? The fact that regular folks hear virtually nothing about this strongly indicates that it's like most data collection -- if people knew the real deal they probably wouldn't happily sign on and would likely bring more questions than they want to deal with.
- RockRobotRock 4y agoNot really, non-tech people don't know or care about reCaptcha. I still think its evil for reCaptcha to be so prolific and used for data collection, but it's a positive side-effect that its also used for less evil things like labeling for data sets.
- jrm4 4y agoRight. But if it was mostly good, whoever reCaptcha is could raise/make boatloads of money with "you're not just practicing safe computing, you're helping save children's lives" type ads/fundraising.