How true is this?

It's true. But Google couldn't care less about you posting loli on Vietnamese pottery forum.

100% true

disabling 3rd party cookies breaks captcha but they don't actually need cookies to track you. They use cookies t o determine how difficult a captcha to give you.

i don't doubt there's something of this nature going on. while mass data mining is a largely a social issue that most people have no awareness of, you can usually avoid contributing to the system by blocking third party scripts.

>you can usually avoid contributing to the system by blocking third party scripts.
Yeah try blocking captcha (Without fucking paying chinkmoot, retard) and see what happens.

most sites use recaptcha only for things like confirmation of a booking or creation of an account. nothing significant can be collected from few isolated captcha solving cases.

Jow Forums is an exception, since the volume of captchas solved contributes to Google's AI and other social experiments greatly, which i can only assume Google helps maintain financially in return.

You are offered the choice to opt out of this scheme, either by purchasing a pass or by ceasing to post comments on this website. Whining about it only makes you a hypocrite.

Collected data is always potentially significant.

don't move the goalposts. a single use of recaptcha on some service can only tell google that you're using that particular service. and yes, that is significant to the user profile they have on you. however, in most cases this is unavoidable because failure to use recaptcha results in failure to use the service. this is not the point i'm making though.

recaptcha data collected from Jow Forums is different in that it's not used to prove you're not a robot and let you off the hook, oh no. it's used to prove you're an obedient automaton, for which you get rewarded with more complex captchas. the average 4channer spends around a couple of hours a day, solving captchas one after another. this means the more captchas a user solves, the more willing they are to solve more of them, often resulting in more complex ones. this means Google can determine the threshold of complexity they can afford to set in the subsequent captchas without causing the users to quit in frustration, which maximises the efficiency of their experiments.

it's AI training as much as it is gamified obedience social engineering.

You're late to the party, they can easily check the timestamp of reCaptcha and trace back to your post.
So if you have ever used any Google services, your Jow Forums ghost account is already linked to your profile.

just accept that google is skynet and decide what to do with your life
you don't have to use google, you know.

Through HTTP referrers they can see the thread you're posting in, your location, and what time you post. It's easy to infer which post is yours, or at least narrow it down to a couple posts

>Cookies are per-site
>what are third-party cookies
You're an retard