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Happy Birthday to one of the few still-good sites on the open internet

• Dwedit 3y ago
  Ah yes, the site that makes you "anonymous" when you post, yet requires you to send your Google cookies to Google servers before the recaptcha loads.
  • coumbaya 3y ago
    I mean they offer a way around that. I'm not sure the point is to spy on you, it's just the easiest way to avoid spam I guess ?
  • ta8903 3y ago
    4chan hasn't been using google captcha for 2 years.
  • LinuxBender 3y ago
    It's CloudFlare now, to get the captcha. https://challenges.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/h/g/flow/ov1/#[snip]
    • x-complexity 3y ago
      It's marginally better... but not by much. If privacy is that much of a concern, then it's feasible to roll out your own version of JS challenges, delay functions, & captchas, but that's additional complexity that could otherwise be farmed out to Cloudflare themselves or another provider. Ideally, a self-hostable instance with an exposed API would be preferred, but the captcha for such an instance would be reverse engineered & subsequently broken, rendering it worthless.
      • hellojesus 3y ago
        4chan bans VPN ip ranges, so it's definitely not an anonymous site or even trying to be beyond connecting front end posts back to users as non corps/gov.