#Canada #CoSoCanucks
Jasper is burned to the ground.
Omg this is heartbreaking.

Make sure your registered to vote Some people are checking and finding they have been wiped from the books ...GOP bull shit tactics

"The conclusion can be extended that the true purpose of reCAPTCHA v2 is a free image-labeling labor and tracking cookie farm for advertising and data profit masquerading as a security service," the paper declares.

#Google #Privacy #CoSoSec

Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

In a paper [PDF]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,"

authors Andrew Searles, Renascence Tarafder Prapty, and Gene Tsudik argue that the service should be abandoned because it's disliked by users, costly in terms of time and datacenter resources, and vulnerable to bots – contrary to its intended purpose.

More here:

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/24/googles_recaptchav2_labor/

@th3j35t3r more likely he'd walk around eating ice cream telling folks it's chunky monkey but no monkey's are in it

"it's chunky monkey...hey...it's just a name...there's no actual monkey in it"

Random facts is more his style 😆

Senior Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller on NBC says that a major issue liability for @KamalaHarris is that “she wants to ban plastic straws.”

Me: Plastic Straws?
That's all you've got?
They are lost.