• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    All this discussion about captchas raises a question for me: if fingerprinting is so accurate and easy, that ublock, no cookies and a VPN don’t help… then why the fuck do I have to keep doing captchas?

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      1 day ago

      To punish you for trying to protect yourself. To extract micro-labour out of you (AI training) To discourage you from privacy best practices Oh BTW, the captcha will eventually contain unblockable ads