No, I'm intending to make it hard for sketchy third-party ad companies to track me. Some ad networks can't even avoid serving malware, it's not realistic to expect them to competently safeguard my data.
It just so happens that Google's method for telling if I'm a bot or a human isn't just to show me mangled text, but also to use ad-network-style tracking.
In Google's defence this is probably an attempt to deal with captcha-solving-by-humans-as-a-service or something like that. I can't imagine Google employs many privacy enthusiasts who would spot a problem like this by dogfooding.
It just so happens that Google's method for telling if I'm a bot or a human isn't just to show me mangled text, but also to use ad-network-style tracking.
In Google's defence this is probably an attempt to deal with captcha-solving-by-humans-as-a-service or something like that. I can't imagine Google employs many privacy enthusiasts who would spot a problem like this by dogfooding.