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You don't have to use ReCaptcha. You just elect to do your business in another way or with another company. For example, I was a lifelong member of a regional b
by steelframe 7y ago
You don't have to use ReCaptcha. You just elect to do your business in another way or with another company. For example, I was a lifelong member of a regional bicycling club until they started trying to force me to solve ReCaptchas whenever I'd need to log in to their web site, and they stopped accepting membership dues and event registration fees by a check in the mail. That was easy enough: I stopped giving them money, and I started self-supporting on any ride events they held out on public roads. My kid's pediatrician threw a ReCaptcha in my face after I entered all the information to make an online payment. I closed the tab and sent them a check.
At first I got passive-aggressive about it. I would purposely fail the ReCaptcha and then contact support to tell them it wasn't working. They'd always provide a workaround. But then I realized it was easier just to stop giving them my business. For me personally, so far it really hasn't been any kind of big inconvenience.
- shadowgovt 7y agoThe amount of inconvenience will vary heavily from person to person.
- Spooky23 7y agoThere are states where paying your sales taxes for your business or performing online DMV transactions require recaptcha.
- nallgate 7y agoI myself am not a fan of signatures personally. Why would I allow just anyone to see my name written in unique way? What a flagrant violation of my privacy rights! Any time someone wants me to sign something, I don't use the service. A regional company wanted my signature to use their service. At first I was pretty passive aggressive about it, I sent them a drawing of stallman holding an emacs shield and a lisp sword for the signature, but eventually I realized I could live without electricity from the main grid if I just relied on fire. Honestly, it hasn't really been an inconvenience.
- reportgunner 7y agoHave you tried using a different signature for each respective service ?
- epanchin 7y agoI imagine they saved more money stopping accepting checks, than they gained from you as a member.
- opportune 7y agoPersonally every time someone asks me to pay them with money I roll my eyes and slap down some silver coins. I got in a big fight with the bus driver the other day because fluctuations in the price of silver made the same amount of silver no longer cover the fare