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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A. This clown doesn’t understand the difference (and overlap) between private browsing and anonymous browsing.

B. “Big Tech” already has a way to thwart them. reCAPTCHA, which bills itself as protection against hackers, indiscriminately denies service to users of anonymous browsers in order to force them to use something that makes them individually identifiable and trackable.


32 posted on 04/17/2021 10:25:24 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

I’ve experienced that with reCAPTCHA. It’s infuriating, but I haven’t found a way around it (yet).


39 posted on 04/18/2021 4:06:50 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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To: Paal Gulli

“Big Tech” already has a way to thwart them. reCAPTCHA, which bills itself as protection against hackers, indiscriminately denies service to users of anonymous browsers in order to force them to use something that makes them individually identifiable and trackable.

As a webmaster I encountered this problem with Google reCAPTCHA v3. I had to get rid of it on my commercial websites so privacy-based web browers like Brave could continue work.

I only care about password-guessing bots, so it was easy for me to develop a workaround.

40 posted on 04/18/2021 4:35:46 AM PDT by Gideon7
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