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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by ForHackernews on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:47AM (#18616366)
You're doing work for them for free. It's unpaid Mechanical Turking.
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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by tehlike on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:50AM (#18616380)
Devils advocate: you are getting access to a service that uses google's assistance for spam or abuse protection, not entirely unpaid.
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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by thomersch_ on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:52AM (#18616392)
No, the company that integrates it makes me pay (by doing work for google)
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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by xypher on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:39AM (#18616595)
Again, worthy trade off, not much of a work to solve one recaptcha, and the service that you use remains available more reliably by filtering out spam bots that could potentially render it out of service otherwise.
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Re:Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't p... by tehlike on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:01AM (#18616425)
Either way, you train ai and watch ads in exchange for content.
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