Google’s recaptcha is used to help train image-recognition programs (like all those ones having you identify signs/bicycles/stoplights help Google’s self-driving cars)
They used to have the 2 words, where one word was the control and one word was from a physical book that Google was trying to digitalize
How does that make it acceptable? I’ve had to do like 6 minutes of free labor in the past 10 years. Google owes me like $6-10 for that bullshit.
Since i started getting in to online privacy, I’ve been stuck in captcha-purgatory a lot…it just keeps loading a never ending stream of new captchas for me to solve.
Does lemmy signup use reCAPTCHA? Because I’m starting to think I’m a robot when trying to sign up new accounts. lol. I’ve never had such a hard time getting it right on the first time. Or maybe my eyesight is just getting bad.
