Comment by bun_at_work
3 years ago
If your goal is to avoid Google using your data, putting in bad data that is filtered out accomplishes that, right?
I don't personally have an opinion on HN using the captcha, but their reasoning is pretty obvious, and almost certainly comes from a good place (reducing any spam on the site). That said, you're welcome to your opinions, it just seems like you have an option, based on your stated goal.
Even if it does accomplish that they will still have coaxed me into doing work for them even though I'm not consenting to working for Google.
Consider it like this:
If someone forced you to do physical work against your will, you wouldn't like it any more just because they throw away the product of your labor in the end.
It would just make it more obscene.