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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 130 points 1 month ago (3 children)

reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy and does not share your details with this website or app.

We foxes promise not to let any predators into the henhouse.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They said it wasn't shared with the website. They didn't say it wasn't shared with anyone at all.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of those privacy policies. "We don't sell your data!" in the big type. When you dig more into the fine print... they don't! But they do "share it within their partner family of companies". And then THOSE companies sell it. Or sometimes, sell inferences made from it, even if not sell the data.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they're just sharing your info with their 1000+ "legitimate interest" partners. Nothing sketchy about that, no sir.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A some recently website someone shared showed, there are some bits of data you automatically share with websites without them asking.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did I just have a stroke, or is this comment incomprehensible to everyone else too?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sorry, I was like half asleep. I can’t find it, there was a website I saw shared somewhere on Lemmy that showed you all the info you automatically shared when visiting a website and it pointed out stuff that they collected without even asking for it. The implication is that your device gives websites data involuntarily; the website wasn’t asking for it.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny that it just doesn't work with JS disabled.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disabling js disables breaks fingerprinting, but also breaks a lot of websites

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

So funny that a site about tracking needs more tracking to work.

[–] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Is the link that got posted recently, I'm unsure by who though, if someone finds the link please post it here!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, this is the one!

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago

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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy

I love how they used that period. Seems way better than that lawyer guy from the Simpsons.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, typo. 😬