Luis Alberto MontezumaOct 8, 2024
Reuben Binns⁉️

"It can be concluded that the true purpose of reCAPTCHAv2 is as a tracking cookie farm for advertising profit masquerading as a security service"

from 'Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2' by Searles, Prapty, & Tsudik

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

Jul 22, 2024 at 1:42pmWeb
Show threadWilliam O'ConnellJul 23, 2024

@RDBinns I can't figure out how to square that claim with the fact that third party cookies haven't worked in most browsers for years. From my understanding Google was planning to remove them from Chrome too until the EU government intervened.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog

Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the

Show threadLilian EdwardsAug 6, 2024
@RDBinns ha I had a good student dissertation on this last year, was surprised so little legal academe attention