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I try to browse with JavaScript off by default and a lot of sites just don't load anymore - and I'm not speaking of SPAs here. Anything Cloudflare had a 50/50 c
by emptyparadise 6y ago
I try to browse with JavaScript off by default and a lot of sites just don't load anymore - and I'm not speaking of SPAs here. Anything Cloudflare had a 50/50 chance of throwing me a "please enable JavaScript to continue" error, and when it doesn't happen, anything that looks like an email address is filtered out.
And even if I do enable JavaScript wholesale, website isolation means that reCaptcha thinks I'm an evil bot because I don't allow it to see my activities elsewhere.
- tsujp 6y agoI had set up disabled fingerprinting, disabled fingerprinting via WebGL, website containers, a whole bunch of other stuff I cannot remember the name of in the Firefox preference list (you'll see why) in an effort to maximise browsing privacy and the result was I spent probably 30 minutes a day filling in reCaptchas; probably 2 or 3 panels per form -- and the ultra annoying slowly-fade-out kind. hCaptcha was a lot less annoying for websites that used it but the end result was still a grotesque addition of friction to my browsing experience. I ended up resetting Firefox back to the defaults to un-set all those options I made a list of. That's not a comment on Firefox of course; the sad state of the web currently is that in order to prove we're not a bot we seemingly have to give up our privacy (via relentless fingerprinting) OR your time (through hugely wasteful reCaptcha, and to a lesser extent hCaptcha fills).