m_f@midwest.social to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThis Captchamidwest.socialimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1531arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1499arrow-down1imageThis Captchamidwest.socialm_f@midwest.social to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZoboomafoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago The service is free to use No it isn’t. My access to it is not conditional to my authentic participation in unpaid labor Yes it is, and you’re being paid by access. Is paying in labor instead of money such an alien concept to you?
minus-squareZoboomafoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoIt’s really not that complicated. If you don’t want to pay to use a service, that’s your perogative, but it’s not a deceptive trade at all. The website gets to avoid bots spamming forms, you get access to the forms, and Captcha gets some training data. Everyone benefits
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No it isn’t.
Yes it is, and you’re being paid by access.
Is paying in labor instead of money such an alien concept to you?
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It’s really not that complicated. If you don’t want to pay to use a service, that’s your perogative, but it’s not a deceptive trade at all.
The website gets to avoid bots spamming forms, you get access to the forms, and Captcha gets some training data. Everyone benefits
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