<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The tale of &quot;convenience&quot; is a bit of a trick.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>The tale of "convenience" is a bit of a trick. A lot of corporate provided services maybe were somewhat convenient a decade ago, but they are now increasingly authoritarian, and people tend to ignore how much time they steal. </p><p>Total number of hours spent solving captchas or consent screens with <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/deltachat" rel="tag">#<span>deltachat</span></a>  <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/chatmail" rel="tag">#<span>chatmail</span></a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/webxdc" rel="tag">#<span>webxdc</span></a> apps: 0 (zero).  Nada. Zilch. </p><p>Compare with the estimated 819 million hours which humans spent with Google's recaptcha alone  <a href="https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>boingboing.net/2025/02/07/reca</span><span>ptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/52925725-4878-453c-955e-c6ae99877c85/the-tale-of-convenience-is-a-bit-of-a-trick.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:48:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/52925725-4878-453c-955e-c6ae99877c85.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 18:38:59 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl></channel></rss>