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Nope, but this article isn't aimed at HN readers. It's aimed at lay people who don't necessarily understand what actions they're taking to implicitly undermine their own privacy or jeopardize the future of an open, standards-driven web. Katherine has written other, more innovative pieces around the same issues: https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-h...

> Nope, but this article isn't aimed at HN readers. It's aimed at lay people who don't necessarily understand what actions they're taking...

So why is it here?

An article can be of interest to HN readers without being aimed at them.

No doubt. But the reason why this one isn't aimed at HN readers is because they've heard all of this multiple times already.

I'm not disagreeing with the article, I'm just wondering why it is of interest.

Content to advertising ratio very low with this article, I think people just voted it up for the feel-good value.

I guess that makes sense.

Not much. But the article can be shared with your non-technical friends and family members though. I guess that's why it has a lot of upvotes.