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Tor breaks a lot of shit for me, and I dont even bother with captchas becuase it usually just flags me as a bot. So I dont think this is particularly surprising
by kart23 7y ago
Tor breaks a lot of shit for me, and I dont even bother with captchas becuase it usually just flags me as a bot. So I dont think this is particularly surprising or out of the ordinary.
But yeah, discord used to be held in high standards by me and plenty of other gamers, but they have made it clear that they cannot handle tough situations, and dont really care about their userbase. Someone should start a privacy focused phone number as a service, acces to texts online and through an app. Allow people to basically have a spam phone number that they can give out to online services, but make people pay for it obviously. Like 10minutemail but long term and for texts only.
- throwaway2048 7y agoGoogle captcha is particularly egregious because it will flag you as "never allow in, ever" but not give any indication of this, and still will happily have you solving captchas (that is, working for Google, for free) for 30+ minutes, until you catch on that they aren't ever going to let you past. Captcha v3 is even worse in this regard, because it silently flags you while appearing to let you in...
- VectorLock 7y agoI like this idea since it puts a lot of effort onto bad actors and exhausts their resources.
- throwaway2048 7y agoCool, lets hope it doesn't consistently consider you a "bad actor" for reasons that it wont ever tell you.
- VectorLock 7y agoI never said the system was flawless, simply that the idea of continuing to present checks instead of explicitly saying "you're blocked" was a clever idea.
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- throwaway2048 7y agoIts clever if you think your users are the enemy I guess.
- cynoclast 7y agoYou're as bad as google.
- pcmaffey 7y agovoice.google.com (not privacy focused, but works as a catchall number when you dont want to give out your own)
- thekyle 7y agoI mean it's not exactly privacy focused but if you just use it for spam then Google Voice or Skype numbers would work fine for this.
- kart23 7y agoYeah, those are great, but I could easily see a situation where google bans you from using voice for an equally opaque reason, and then you're really screwed with all your 2fa for a while. Something more privacy focused and reliable for people like op.
- 481092 7y agoMany sites don't accept Google Voice or VOIP numbers unfortunately. Or fortunately, depending, as it'd be easier to use GV for text spamming.
- numismatex 7y agoSorry, if you're using TOR on discord I probably don't want you there. Gaming yields insane toxicity, grooming of kids, harassment, stalking and other bad shit. People using TOR, Jondonym or HMA or something else to hide who and where they are, are free to browse the web with pseudonymity. I've had people stalk me in RL, showing up at my place of work and doxxing my address. For that matter, I've seen weird, creepy old men playing with kids that they're in no way related to. ESRB rating doesn't keep squeakers out. There is more than enough reason to ban VPNs and TOR from gaming servers, and related communication services. All games should be doing it. Yeah, you're vulnerable if someone owns them but guess what? You already were with TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and other alternatives, which you can use if you don't like the verification policy that companies like Steam also enforce if you wish to participate. I'd be okay with Steam banning VPNs and TOR, too. They're not pioneers of it, either. For a time, SOE did the same thing with blanket bans of VPNs and TOR. Which was a relief, with adults wandering around in their child-targeted games. Much less the wastes of space in the EverQuest trolling and threatening.