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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Captchas are for free image recognition training, not verifying humanity. My ability to identify fire hydrants is not what makes me human.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago

When captchas were first a thing computers couldn’t do them yet so for a very brief period of time they were effective at filtering robots. I can believe that some poor Google engineer from 2009 or whatever didn’t realize the implication of what they were creating.