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Tor browser does that.

by eeZah7Ux 6y ago

gruez 6y ago
Firefox with resistfingerprinting also works.
- SubzeroCarnage 6y ago
  https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js is militantly maintained. It documents and make it easy to use many of the features upstreamed into Firefox by the Tor Project.
- t0astbread 6y ago
  Currently trying out resistFingerprinting and I really don't like that it resets my zoom level on every new tab. I understand that there might be scenarios where not doing so would pose a risk (e.g. when a site opens another site in a new tab and they exchange their observed zoom level behind the scenes) but I'm okay with that. Most of the time I'd zoom back in anyways, so is there a way to disable that specific feature of RFP?
tbiteteitb 6y ago
I love tor-browser project, what I don't like it's the hostile web you uncover with it. Browsing with tor-browser has become a CAPTCHA minefield. Everything, everywhere there's a "human" captcha waiting for You. Sometimes I have to do the challenges 3 or more times. There's opportunities that even after a 4th attempt it just doesn't work.
- airstrike 6y ago
  It's so incredibly annoying https://i.redd.it/gjgee5ccsfd51.jpg https://i.redd.it/gjgee5ccsfd51.jpg
  - graedus 6y ago
    This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring mechanism isn't that simple/binary, or something like that.
    - deadwing0 6y ago
      The thought that it's potentially someone's job to consider these things makes me smile.
    - aleph_naught 6y ago
      These captchas are used to crowdsource training data for semantic segmentation ML models. By shifting the image around, users statistically fill out the boundaries of objects by selecting which squares include the object. As a result, in many captcha instances, you see objects right at rectangle boundaries.
    - mswann 6y ago
      It often doesn't even matter to click wrong boxes to a certain degree. Green or red points are usually accepted as traffic lights (often no need to click the whole traffic light) and anything white painted on a street is usually accepted as a crosswalk and so on. Skipping/verifying the second task without even bothering to look at it (i.e. immediately after clicking "next" on the first one) usually works well, too. The AI based on the ML at work here seems not to be very sophisticated.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago
  > I don't like it's the hostile web you uncover with it "uncover" is the right word: the hostility towards anonymous users was already there. We should boycott such sites.

Tor browser does that.

gruez 6y ago

Firefox with resistfingerprinting also works.

SubzeroCarnage 6y ago
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js is militantly maintained. It documents and make it easy to use many of the features upstreamed into Firefox by the Tor Project.
t0astbread 6y ago
Currently trying out resistFingerprinting and I really don't like that it resets my zoom level on every new tab. I understand that there might be scenarios where not doing so would pose a risk (e.g. when a site opens another site in a new tab and they exchange their observed zoom level behind the scenes) but I'm okay with that. Most of the time I'd zoom back in anyways, so is there a way to disable that specific feature of RFP?

tbiteteitb 6y ago

I love tor-browser project, what I don't like it's the hostile web you uncover with it. Browsing with tor-browser has become a CAPTCHA minefield. Everything, everywhere there's a "human" captcha waiting for You. Sometimes I have to do the challenges 3 or more times. There's opportunities that even after a 4th attempt it just doesn't work.

airstrike 6y ago
It's so incredibly annoying https://i.redd.it/gjgee5ccsfd51.jpg https://i.redd.it/gjgee5ccsfd51.jpg
- graedus 6y ago
  This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring mechanism isn't that simple/binary, or something like that.
  - deadwing0 6y ago
    The thought that it's potentially someone's job to consider these things makes me smile.
  - aleph_naught 6y ago
    These captchas are used to crowdsource training data for semantic segmentation ML models. By shifting the image around, users statistically fill out the boundaries of objects by selecting which squares include the object. As a result, in many captcha instances, you see objects right at rectangle boundaries.
  - mswann 6y ago
    It often doesn't even matter to click wrong boxes to a certain degree. Green or red points are usually accepted as traffic lights (often no need to click the whole traffic light) and anything white painted on a street is usually accepted as a crosswalk and so on. Skipping/verifying the second task without even bothering to look at it (i.e. immediately after clicking "next" on the first one) usually works well, too. The AI based on the ML at work here seems not to be very sophisticated.
eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I don't like it's the hostile web you uncover with it "uncover" is the right word: the hostility towards anonymous users was already there. We should boycott such sites.