Comment by dragonwriter
3 years ago
> I do NOT consent to working for free for Google to train their AI.
Its not for free.
In this case, you get access to HN when it is under attack.
If you don’t consent to those terms, that's your choice, you can wait and come back later.
Or we can complain, suggest alternatives, and hope that it motivates a change. Hacker News is, after all, a place for conversation—people are entitled to express an opinion.
Sure, my point is not “don't complain”, but “the current HN usage of CAPTCHA neither compels you to use it without consent, nor proposes that you train Google’s AI for free”.
That is, it is about the specific content of the complaint, not a meta-level commentary on the appropriateness of complaining about practices you disapprove of.