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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 150 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This has been going on for decades. CDDB, IMDB, Redhat.

Anything you volunteer for will be monetized and you will get cut off from your own contributions.

Even here on Lemmy people post Twitter images and Reddit reader apps which only helps those platforms retain mindshare even if they aren't directly profiting with ads.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

Google has a volunteer program to make their AI better. Fucking one of the biggest corporations in the world asking for free labor and apparently people do it?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 10 months ago

You were/are doing it every time you solved a Captcha to prove you aren't a robot.

[-] decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah but this is in the area of unpaid labor. You "had to" solve a captcha in order they let you use another service. You are not visiting a page with the sole purpose of voluntarily solving captchas

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