I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve just considered it a casualty of the privacy wars.

    I don’t know if they’re deployed as a “weapon of annoyance” or anything, but I do notice that when I’m using a) a degoogled browser, b) an ad-blocking dns, c) mask my location, and/or d) block my IP. Suddenly (almost) every website makes me wait by throwing that at me.

    I think it’s lowkey trying to annoy me to the point where I give up on having those privacy measures, but they underestimate my hatred of corporate fuckery.

    • fdnomad@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      I’d guess your client just looks more like a crawler that way and gets a JS challenge thrown its way