Hacker News
- CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ 9 comments
- I'm not sure if anyone has posted this, but as someone who manages websites, how do I combat this? https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ 29 comments degoogle
Linking pages
- Valve bans games that rely on in-game ads from Steam, so no 'watch this to continue playing' stuff will be making its way to our PCs | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valve-bans-games-that-rely-on-in-game-ads-from-steam-so-no-watch-this-to-continue-playing-stuff-will-be-making-its-way-to-our-pcs/ 1223 comments
- The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-playstation-network-outage-proves-pc-gamers-were-right-to-resist-its-mandatory-sign-in-requirement/ 234 comments
- Sony offers 5 free days of PlayStation Plus but no explanation for 24-hour 'operational issue,' Capcom to extend Monster Hunter Wilds beta to make up for downtime | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/sony-offers-5-free-days-of-playstation-plus-but-no-explanation-for-24-hour-operational-issue-capcom-to-extend-monster-hunter-wilds-beta-to-make-up-for-downtime/ 138 comments
Linked pages
- https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html 964 comments
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick takes a moment to remind us once again that 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/take-two-ceo-strauss-zelnick-takes-a-moment-to-remind-us-once-again-that-theres-no-such-thing-as-artificial-intelligence/ 606 comments
- [2311.10911] Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911 53 comments