Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.
Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.
Exactly. We’re all out here licking corporate boots by clicking traffic lights for free, propping up their data plantations under the guise of “security.” Google turned paranoia into profit, and now Cloudflare’s farming our fingerprints like we’re glorified dairy cows.
That $3 settlement? Peanuts to keep us complacent while they mint billions off our collective unpaid labor. The real CAPTCHA is figuring out how to burn this extractive circus to the ground before we’re all indentured to their algorithmic overlords.
Scientists agree that the human body, at rest, can produce around 100 watts of power on average. This is enough electricity to power up a light bulb. Some humans have the ability to output over 2,000 watts of power, for instance if sprinting.
https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/human-body-make-electricity.htm
I love how it has taken this long for media to cover this issue. I thought this was common knowledge for about a decade
I had to go through seven captcha screens a couple of days ago just to apply for a fucking job.
If I wasn’t so desperate for work, I would have said fuck it. I hate it.
You know, I think the best way for the Internet as a whole to stop using people as product, is to have a worldwide publically subsidised Internet, like the BBC or PBS but it is the Internet. The governments pitches in just like with any global programmes.
People buy magnets and tape them to their body because they think it cures cancer.
Why would these people use free Internet when premium luxury deluxe Internet is available for only .99¢ a month.
And then why wouldn’t PLDI, Inc founder not use his influence to get elected president and kill that bad public Internet.
Worse than magnets, “negative ion” wearables are strong radioactive aources
The best way is for people to stop trying to make as much money as possible with as little effort as possible.
It’s not about keeping the lights on, putting kids through school, or putting bread on the table. It’s about living as luxurious a life as possible with as little effort as possible. That’s it.
If these people were forced to do more with less, they would because they have no other choice. They have other choices, so that’s what they take.
I’m sorry, but people like you are actually helping them by peddling the narrative that they need this money. They don’t. Plenty of people work harder than them for less because they have no choice.
We need to stop giving businesses decisions on how to f**k us and just band together with higher standards so they make less profit.
Everyone who gives them money should be seen as a class traitor, because that’s what they are.
That would be awesome but I don’t see it working in practice. The BBC at least is losing it’s independence, I don’t know about PBS. Imagine Trump now controlling the internet directly for 4 years.
Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Pichai were all sitting behind him at his inauguration.
Which is like 3% of the internet, tops. Large swaths are thankfully still free. gestures at lemmy exhibit A
I already pay for internet access. I think most people do. Use that money.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/buster-captcha-solver-for/mpbjkejclgfgadiemmefgebjfooflfhl
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
A useful extension. Works 90% of the time for me.
Reviews on the Firefox one says it requires you to download and install another app for it to work. Screw that nonsense.
