• @[email protected]
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    691 year ago

    Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

    • Flabbergassed
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      261 year ago

      I unwittingly do that all the time. It often takes me 30+ Captchas before I finally get in. Then I’ve forgotten what the hell I was doing in the first place.

      • @Confused_Emus
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        41 year ago

        Do you usually do them quickly? Try slowing down next time, and you’ll get through with less captchas.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

      They kinda do. This is the way the “free” model of internet services works. One of the reasons I think we should probably switch to expecting services to either be paid or non-profit, rather than ad/data-supported.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Yeah, but the whole point of offering free services was just a ploy to crush competition with shorter runways to profit. Google could just sustain "free"services longer than their competitors could remain solvent.

        Now that they’ve run most of their competitors into the ground, and now that people and businesses have become dependent on these services. They can bank off advertising and monetizing services with subscriptions.

        Google business accounts used to be free, now you have to pay 9 bucks a month per employee, and you are subjected to even more advertising. Neither advertising nor subscriptions are going anywhere, especially now that subscription plans are so normalized.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          That might have been the point. It’s also saved me countless hours of my life being able to navigate anywhere at any time with step by step instructions on how to get there.

          There was a lot of value produced for a lot of people by google maps so far

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            There was a lot of value produced for a lot of people by google maps so far

            Right… But people don’t get upset about monopolies because they don’t create value. They get upset because they eliminate competition and choice.