# How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system - Boing Boing

<https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

Ugh.

## Facts

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- [WT309: Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/309/), Briefly

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