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Hacker news is awesome today. "Shun white supremacists" getting downvoted, nice.
Hacker news people are usually against censorship, yes.
hell yeah, defend white supremacists! gooooo hacker news!!
Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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for google, you are the enemy. not even bots. captcha is google master blow against ad blockers. a regular user, who they have all the info, give them dollars per ad impression. You, with your doNotTrack (ha! that was a joke) and privacy addons makes them only cents per ad impressions. you are google's enemy. remember this when you get stuck in captcha hell (and consequently censored from most sites until changing de…
IDK. I run Firefox on many OSes, everywhere with uMatrix that blocks known trackers, ad networks and such. I don't see most ads (if any). I rarely see the "I am not a robot" box, and hasn't seen image recognition tasks for a long-long time.
if you were really blocking all trackers, Captcha would even work. Firefox help page for their new tracker blocking feature says so even.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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Cite? I can't imagine some forum has enough traffic to meaningfully screw up their data, and they don't tell you which of the two words is the unknown word, so you're just going to fail a lot doing that.
4chan was doing it specifically with a six letter racial slur that's unrepeatable.
not really. it started with the word "penis" for the original "campaign" but since a single word was obviously ineffective the meme improved.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
#574Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hacker news people are usually against censorship, yes.
hell yeah, defend white supremacists! gooooo hacker news!!
Just like the ACLU. Free speech is very important. If someone has something objectionable to say, let them expose themselves. Censorship solves nothing.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
#575Lately I've been getting reCAPTCHA prompts all the time even though I'm not browsing in incognito mode and haven't cleared cookies. All I'm doing is running a very basic ad blocker, using Safari (which blocks third-party tracking), and very rarely loading a Google site. The most interaction I have with Google is when I end up having to use my corporate Google account as SSO for some other site. Given that I'm not doi…
I recently replaced a bunch of securimage captchas with reCAPTCHA v2. During testing I had to shut it off because it became increasingly more complicated every page reload. First it was just one page of traffic lights, but 20 minutes later I was having to click through 5-6 pages of images. This worries me that user's might get pissed off. I'd really like to know if I've made life harder for my users in an attempt to…
I cancelled and deleted my Spotify account because of that. Now any site that asks me to fill a Google recaptcha is met with a swift click on the Back button.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
#576Earlier quoted context omitted.
IDK. I run Firefox on many OSes, everywhere with uMatrix that blocks known trackers, ad networks and such. I don't see most ads (if any). I rarely see the "I am not a robot" box, and hasn't seen image recognition tasks for a long-long time.
That also heavily depends on what kind of/which sites you visit.
"that also depends if you have something to hide" was said of every police state and censorship scheme.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
#577Lately I've been getting reCAPTCHA prompts all the time even though I'm not browsing in incognito mode and haven't cleared cookies. All I'm doing is running a very basic ad blocker, using Safari (which blocks third-party tracking), and very rarely loading a Google site. The most interaction I have with Google is when I end up having to use my corporate Google account as SSO for some other site. Given that I'm not doi…
I use Safari on a Mac with a simple ad blocker, but I use a lot of Google products, and I also get a captcha most of the time.
So perhaps it's Safari and/or the ad blocker that are to blame? Hard to say, though.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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Interesting idea :) I don't think spambots are currently using Chromium or even running JavaScript. Using simple spamfilters in JavaScript still works fine on my setups.
Most modern credential stuffers use headless browsers with all the bells and whistles, html5, javascript, etc. Login attempts are usually spread over a massive botnet of residential IPs as well, where they'll only use each IP for one or two login attempts before moving on to the next. It's a very fascinating problem space
In my experience, the botnet didn't upgrade their JVM...it was 18-24 months out of date. THAT was what we filtered on at the F5 to blunt the attack.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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hell yeah, defend white supremacists! gooooo hacker news!!
Just like the ACLU. Free speech is very important. If someone has something objectionable to say, let them expose themselves. Censorship solves nothing.
Just look at how state-backed censorship laws have turned Germany and Canada into totalitarian hellholes.
Yeah, right.
HN stans for white supremacy because it's mostly white and extremely online and never gets out to see the results of "give everyone a soapbox" on the streets where the proud boys are out there beating the shit out of people.
You people are cowards, and nothing more. There's no bravery here, no principled stand, just a bunch of fucking cowards.
Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
#580The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was trying to visit. I assume it has to do with a lack of Google cookies on the browser, essentially punishing me for trying to protect my privacy.
get this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...
I guess Mozilla hasn't noticed that one yet. They've been removing captcha bypassing add-ons from their site. And because all Firefox versions that aren't buggy require add-ons to be signed by Moz it makes distributing them through other channels rather tedious.