| ▲ | snailmailman 2 hours ago |
| I’m already sick and tired of seeing cloudflares “making sure you aren’t a bot” checkbox everywhere. Sometimes it locks me out entirely and decides I don’t get to view pages. I see recaptcha less frequently but it’s much more annoying, with all the clicking of crosswalks, or busses, or whatever. I am not looking forward to a web where google can not only lock me out of my email, but also large sections of the previously public internet. Occasionally google decides I don’t get to do searches, and that’s not too much of an inconvenience, there are other search engines. |
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| ▲ | Gander5739 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| But what's the alternative? Sites need a way to prevent bots overwhelming them, and there's no perfect way to distinguish real users from bots. |
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| ▲ | 2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe ai companies should have invested any of those billions of dollars into safe and equitable ways of rolling out their new surveillance machines. Oh right that was never the point and this only serves to further that. Got it. | |
| ▲ | andrepd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You're right, we need big tech to protect us from the problems big tech created. In the olden 20th century, we had a term for that... | | |
| ▲ | 2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent [-] | | You know that protection racket where the mobster came to my corner store and says if I don't pay him he will come later and rough me up? This is a worse deal than that. | | |
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| ▲ | anonym29 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | mCaptcha, ALTCHA, Cap, Friendly Captcha, Private Captcha, Procaptcha, Anubis... there are literally dozens of open source alternatives that aren't feeding the Do Be Evil company... not to mention all of the commercial alternatives - if for whatever reason, you do feel like paying for a service that costs nothing to offer | | |
| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r an hour ago | parent [-] | | Gen off it. Fraud detection is nontrivial and requires ongoing effort. It’s reasonable for people to be compensated for that. |
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| ▲ | sieabahlpark 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | negura 12 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| reminder that any company which has a legal obligation towards you (GDPR requests, refunds, filling a complaint etc) can be contacted directly and forced to do it manually if you cannot use their web interface due to being blocked by Cloudflare & other captchas |
