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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by Akronymus on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:08AM (#36430892)
Pixels likely refers to 1x1 tracking images (image fetched from a server, and through that, they can get some data from you, like IP address or visited before)
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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by Lornedon on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:15AM (#36430960)
Sorry, I sent my comment before it was done. It's edited now.
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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by Akronymus on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:27AM (#36431087)
Yeah, I see your edit. With JS you can also detect whether it was fetched before, so that is a way of storing information about whether you have visited something before. Which can then be sent to the server. So, it kinda is storing data, kinda not.
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