Unpaid Pixels: The Secret Economy of Human Verification

Every time you click on crosswalks, traffic lights, or decipher twisted letters to prove you are human, you are working a totally unpaid job. Over the past two decades, billions of internet users have been tricked into providing free micro-labor to trillion-dollar tech conglomerates. CAPTCHAs were originally presented as simple security measures to keep automated bots out of websites. In reality...