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  • I don’t believe it, at least not anymore.

    Google has had more than enough data to train AI models from reCAPTCHA for many years. In 2010 it displayed 100 million captchas per day. You simply do not need hundreds of billions of solved captchas in your data set.

    I feel like its only purpose nowadays is stopping basic bots and annoying people who don’t let themselves be tracked as much as advertisers would like.


  • Two reasons:

    • Sleep data can give some information on your health but isn’t regulated as strictly as health data. Health data == Money
    • Companies want your time and attention. TV manufacturers want you to use your TV as much as possible, social media companies want you to use their platform as much as possible, video game developers want you to play their games as much as possible. Nintendo successfully gained people’s time when outside through Pokèmon Go already. Now they’re trying to expand to your time sleeping. There’s not much time left which isn’t utilized by companies somewhat. Maybe there will be a Pokèmon School/Work soon?

  • Well, TOTP prevents at least these attack vectors, even for tech-illiterate people:

    • Unnoticed data base leaks being used to gain full access to people’s accounts
    • Credential stuffing (using another service’s leaked credentials to gain access)

    With TOTP there must be at least some contact between the “hacker” and the victim.


  • I think most people are just unaware of the risk that is involved. Healthcare information is some of the most sensitive data on a person and should be protected at all cost.

    Some older people in particular have as much of a self-preservation instinct on the internet as toddlers in real life. If protecting them takes away a tiny bit of agency from them then so be it because they cannot be trusted with such decisions. I believe any reasonable person would use MFA because trading off a tiny bit of convenience for a significant amount of security is always worth it.