The tale of "convenience" is a bit of a trick. A lot of corporate provided services maybe were somewhat convenient a decade ago, but they are now increasingly authoritarian, and people tend to ignore how much time they steal.
Total number of hours spent solving captchas or consent screens with #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc apps: 0 (zero). Nada. Zilch.
Compare with the estimated 819 million hours which humans spent with Google's recaptcha alone boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca…
How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system - Boing Boing
New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.Mark Frauenfelder (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
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in reply to Delta Chat • • •Add to that the incomprehensible captchas. There are some websites I've just given up on.
I discovered the other day that it is no longer possible to buy and sell used stuff on a swedish online version of ebay without a smartphone. Bye, bye, swedish online market place!
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in reply to Delta Chat • • •Ray McCarthy
in reply to Delta Chat • • •recaptcha
Abusively used when you already have an account!
Cultural Imperialism by USA.
Also there are non-abusive self hosing solutions to stop fake sign-ups.
Once someone has an account they should never see a recaptcha
They are evil!