Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s

Captcha buster is taking care of the captchas now at least. A robot that proves I'm not a robot. Is this the singularity yet?

In europe we have a "reject all" button for cookies and it's fantastic

All that just to find that the page doesn’t have the info you needed anyway.

Internet in 2024 (for me):

1. Service unavailable in your country (VPN)
2. Confirm you're a human (VPN)
3. Blank page (noscript)
4. Obscure error (fingerprint / cookie blocking)
5. Page not found (https required)

The percentage of websites that "just work" with privacy measures in place is depressingly small.

How is this a shitpost? It's just true.

Most of all, I was sick of the captcha from cloudflare.
On some sites, there was endless checking and it was impossible to view the content of the site.

The cookies being pre selected is illegal in the EU. Although I've seen sites that don't care and still enable them by default

We're going to move very quickly to a DRM supported web model. There won't be captchas, but you will require a locked down device (with no ad blocker) to access the content

I use the addon ‘consent o-matic’ it automatically rejects all the cookies and it almost always works. Great addon to add to your (Firefox) browser.

quality meme, shitty reality

We need to develop more alternatives like federated social media or even completely make web services p2p. And then have them somewhat democratically controlled, or easily able to migrate to alternatives without cost of loosing network effects.

Especially something like amazon / ebay / paypal / ali would be awesome to replace with a "public utility" federated version. They tax so much of the sales and it all goes to psycho billionaires.

I encountered the mother of all captchas the other day: it had me picking a three-dimensional room diagram among six of them, matching it to a 2d top-down view of the room. It was way more time consuming than a typical captcha, and I had to do the same task five or six times.

I think we'll see harder and harder captchas as AI models get better and better. Eventually it won't be a realistic option since it just costs humans time and the convenience of whatever service they're trying to use.

Hey, you know the captchas with the little box of warped letters/numbers you're supposed to look at and type it correctly?

Is anyone else, uh, terrible at those? I've literally given up on visiting websites before because I couldn't get the stupid thing right after a dozen tries. Wtf.

Real reason why people just stay on the same four big-data-harvesting sites now.

Website any% speedrun (no glitch)

Is there such a thing as an ad sequesterer? Not necessarily blocking it, but just shoving it in some other window I can’t see, and then letting it play through. Then YouTube gets its ad played, and I don’t have to see it—win/win.

For the motorcycles and bikes... Are we supposed to add the squares with the humans riding it? Are they part of the system?

Which gives me the fewest goddamn captchas?

ever wonder why AI is so “good”? please identify all images which are ____. the captcha system may not know what the image is, but after thousands of responses, it has a pretty good idea of where it is, and what it is (since most users will answer correctly to prove they are human).

I just hate the ones that block you for using Linux. User agent spoofers work but they'll figure out how to block those too someday.

All I see is a cross in the upper right corner.

you guys can actually solve the captchas?

It's the cookie toggles pop up that annoys tf out of me. There's no reason for every site to need to ask you over and over and over about it. The browser should be taking care of that.