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Google using bot scraping free-for-all to further solidify infrastructural power, moving away from CAPTCHA puzzles (don't anyway work across languages, deafblind, AI solvers, etc) to a CAPTCHA QR code to scan w/ a mobile. Google's reCAPTCHA is already surveillance-heavy https://www.heise.de/en/news/Instead-of-picture-puzzles-Google-introduces-QR-code-challenge-against-AI-bots-11273871.html