i’m sure that someone’s already posted this but this part of google’s proposal to add drm to websites is a hell of a tell in terms of how they see users
source: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
left out here:
CAPTCHAs and all the rest of that garbage has been about feeding ML algorithms from the start.
It was never about proving we're human.
It was about building a training data set for their garbage "AI" projects.
sources: https://aibusiness.com/companies/-i-m-not-a-robot-google-s-anti-robot-recaptcha-trains-their-robots-to-see
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence