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not to mention when google puts you in captcha-hell-ban. often, after a few difficult ones, I realize I get stuck into the same 20 challenges. over and over. n
by gcb0 8y ago
not to mention when google puts you in captcha-hell-ban.
often, after a few difficult ones, I realize I get stuck into the same 20 challenges. over and over. no matter if I get them rigth or not. We do run all browser in the office with figerprint protection on and run non-exit-tor-nodes in all offices. But those are hardly excuses.
The hell bans happens more often on firefox for android, but I guess that is what you can expect when you go against goliath.
It's literally google censoring me from talking (and sometimes reading) random sites on the web
- elagost 8y agoI've had this happen frequently because my configuration really aggressively blocks this stuff. It's bad enough that I have a separate browser (Gnome Web aka Epiphany) just for logging into and using sites that have Captcha, like Pocket and Bandcamp, and I do everything else in Firefox. Captcha is horrible. I understand why sites use it, but putting a Google-wall in front of your content is a very bad idea.
- Aeolun 8y agoThe problem is not the wall itself, but that Google uses it’s de-facto monopoly position to enforce tracking.
- msla 8y agoAnd it's going to get worse if this whole "privacy" thing catches on. Google is an advertising company which does adtech, and adtech is inherently about tracking and profiling people. Anyone who messes with that is actively costing Google money, and Google will... you know... stop them from doing that, whether subtly or overtly. There's nothing else they can really do, and "congressional hearings" and "calls for reform" won't change that fundamental fact.
- sneak 8y agoNo, it’s the site owner choosing to outsource their decisions about gatekeeping a private site to Google. Google isn’t censoring you via CAPTCHA, the site owner is.
- lame88 8y agoLol sure, and “guns don’t kill people; people kill people”
- l0b0 8y agoThat is only true as far as the site owner knows of and understands the consequences of their actions. I would be extremely surprised if more than 10% of their users understand this. Whether they care is a whole other matter, but this is very likely ignorance rather than malice on the part of site owners.
- close04 8y agoI can understand why site owners resort to such services. They need a a strong CAPTCHA system. The problem is really Google for abusing it.
- anfilt 8y agoI have fingerprinting off too in firefox, and a lot times I now just ignore sites using captcha.
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