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Your experience sounds like you are using TOR. Google hates TOR users and makes Captchas extra hard and sometimes even impossible to solve fro them. I am surfing unprotected from dragnet surveilance and normally have to only click that "i am not a robot" box to get through - not even seeing a captcha...
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EU forced a terribly written anti cookie law on us .
The spirit of the law was sound. The implementation lousy.
It didn't fix anything, but instead forced annoying popups on everyone which they accept anyway.
The sensible thing would have been just fucking ban all cookies except functional ones.
(Let's face it. Any non-functional cookie is tracking.)
Tho they got one thing right. We can now bother (as a group) any murican company for any EU data going their way.
Sure, they might just pull services from EU. I still think we'd live better without Google, Facebook, Amazon and what have you. -
@exerceo
There are open implementations of maps.
They might not have all of the features maps has (and that 99% of people don't even know how to use), but the basic functionality is there. -
@exerceo something based on OSM?
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@exerceo
Wow, way to necro.
Anyway. The EU cookie law is faulty because all it managed is forcing sites to display more annoying elements to warn about cookies that users consent to anyway without reading, ending only in their annoyance, without being at all effective in its true purpose.
It would have been much easier to force browser vendors to offer a more centralized and more direct way to handle it, akin to https.
You set a default in your browser, which should be by default functional only, and opt-in site by site through a common browser pop-up akin to camera or location permission, etc. something familiar to the user, and not customizable.
If a website is found to use tracking cookies when not authorized, the browser displays a warning just like when the https certificate isn't valid.
That would raise awareness and promote decent behavior from sites. -
@CoreFusionX
I'm positive that it would be possible to implement that¹, but website owners / advertisers and browser vendors would need to be on board.
At least the first group has all the incentive to go dark patterns galore and blame the EU.
The biggest player in the second group has an obvious conflict of interest because they're also (and primarily!) in the first group.
¹ Going all the way to specify the technical implementation is usually not done in laws/regulation because it doesn't age well. IIRC for "cookie law" it mostly boils down to "don't save data to the user's device without consent". -
@saucyatom
I wholeheartedly agree. The whole point is "tell megacorps to abide", and tell anyone who wants to do business here, to abide.
No one questions https, and it's pretty much the same mechanism.
This is my own opinion, but if we want to keep Internet truly free (not without cost, as Englishmen like to say, libre), we need to push for these things.
reCAPTCHA isn't secure 😱
It says i should select all parts of a stop sign... help me pls :c
It is increasingly difficult to believe that Google CAPTCHAs are not deliberately made unsolvable.
Everyone hates CAPTCHA, that is nothing new. As most people know, CAPTCHA frequently whines "please try again" after the user provides the correct answer. Sometimes it shows "Please select all matching images." when no new images with the named subject exist. However, now Google is taking it to a new level.
After clicking, the pictures take five seconds to fade to white and the new pictures take another five seconds to fade in. And CAPTCHA challenges have an expiry duration of two minutes. This causes CAPTCHAs to expire before it is possible to solve them.
Does Google think I am not a human because I don't have the time to waste whack-a-moling random StreetView pictures?
I have a feeling that Google is laughing at us for wasting efforts solving CAPTCHAs that are not meant to be solved.
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