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Do you have the "resist fingerprinting" setting enabled in Firefox? (You can check in about:config)

• whilenot-dev 2y ago
  "privacy.resistFingerprinting" is "true", yes, and it'll stay that way. Why let me solve a puzzle just to block me afterwards anyway?
  • Lanolderen 2y ago
    To let you know who wears the pants in the relationship :)
  • brudgers 2y ago
    I use multiple profiles with Firefox to sandbox cookies etc. My profiles are based on activity. HN, Facebook, and infrequently used sites…sometimes I use Linkedin but I dont want it following me around the web. I would prefer the web was different, but it is not.
  • recursive 2y ago
    Maybe the performance of the puzzle also has some undeclared side channels.
  • michaelt 2y ago
    Businesses that scrape websites for a living hire people in third-world countries to solve captchas 24/7 to keep the scraping bots running. So when I successfully solve a captcha, that doesn't make me 100% trusted not-a-scraping-bot. Instead it's an input into a statistical model, along with all the other identifying information they can hoover up, and that statistical model may still say no.