Post #2581542

2026-05-08 07:57 UTC

Thanks for checking. That clarifies things a lot. I guess we’re fucked. reCaptcha is not used for visiting websites but for registering or submitting form. I can think of couple of cases where I’m required to complete captcha for online shopping or, ever worse, for work. Step by step they will force us all to either use approved devices or be locked out of big parts of the internet. This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-05-08 08:40

I had unsolvable captcha for Github once. Fuck ne, I guess. I just wanted to contribute something, but whatever. Step by step they will force us all to either use approved devices or be locked out of big parts of the internet. there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web To quote a song about a “Fairytale of Doom”: Blinded by gold and blinded by diamonds I let you chain me in silk You told me lies, I drowned in your eyes And in all those castles you built Silver the treasure and gold in the cages Nothing was quite as it seemed And when I realized, you turned the key and I saw your eyes full of greed It was too late when I screamed I try to stay optimistic that this won’t be tenable. Giving in to despair makes it harder to muster the will to resist. But I won’t deny it’s getting tougher.

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