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From the study: "In terms of cost, we estimate that – during over 13 years of its deployment – 819 million hours of human time has been spent on reCAPTCHA, whi
by mitchitized 2y ago
From the study:
"In terms of cost, we estimate that – during over 13 years of its
deployment – 819 million hours of human time has been spent on
reCAPTCHA, which corresponds to at least $6.1 billion USD in
wages. Traffic resulting from reCAPTCHA consumed 134 Petabytes
of bandwidth, which translates into about 7.5 million kWhs of
energy, corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2. In addition,
Google has potentially profited $888 billion USD from cookies and
$8.75-32.3 billion USD per each sale of their total labeled data set."
- Closi 2y agoThe $888 billion profit figure seems suspect - Google annual profit is currently $30.7B so that's almost 30 years of profit at current run-rate.