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?
Average website visit in 2024
Submitted 9 months ago by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to [deleted]
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schmorpel@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, but it’s definitely a boring dystopia.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Singularity was more than 70 years ago.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Go on.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What’s this?
plofi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In europe we have a “reject all” button for cookies and it’s fantastic
Xatolos@reddthat.com 9 months ago
[deleted]Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
Be fair, it’s not always working but more often then not IMO.
I’d love somewhere to reporh those assholish designed (so illegal in the EU) ones, like the French CNIL or something?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Except on news websites that only give you the choice between “subscribe for X€” and “read for free (accept all)”. So annoying. Still no idea why that’s legal.
Doxin@yiffit.net 9 months ago
That’s not at all legal under GDPR. Nor is having deny all be harder than accept. As is tradition however companies don’t give half a shit until fines start happening.
finn_der_mensch@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Because newspapers are not forced to give out their news for free. But they have to give you an alternative to selling your data; taking money from you in this case.
far_university1990@feddit.de 9 months ago
Still no idea why that’s legal.
It is not
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
We also have this glorious extension which just fucks them all off:
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Use I STILL don’t care about cookies. That one is owned by Avast nowadays and accepts all cookies which is clearly not what people want.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 9 months ago
IIRC that add-on was bought by Avast and the new add-on is ‘I still don’t care about cookies’
Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
To my understanding, by using this you accept (all) the cookies… I would like a extension that tries to minimize cookie exposure!
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 9 months ago
Or you can enable “Annoyances” filters in uBlock Origin for the same effect
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, we don’t. I had to do this manually, more than once.
uzay@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Yep, you can “reject all” if you’re lucky. Then you just have to go through the list anyway and untick all “legitimate interest” to spy on you.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Since I started using a VPN, I’ve started seeing that option more. Even still, lots of sites aren’t compliant.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
See I want to be able to set that once, in my browser, and then have all of these things fuck off.
Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There is no such thing as an unintrusive advertisement.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I’d be happy with a static image, hosted by the website which when clicked takes you to the advertiser’s website
autokludge@programming.dev 9 months ago
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I didn’t mind the static ones (within reason), websites need to pay their rent. And not everything can sell something.
But even those have tracking and gross injection code now.
Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Even emails have tracking pixels at this point. Like, I route all of my email through a client that blocks all outside media without asking lol
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
In the long ago if a site needed advertising it was a small banner at the top of the page, and often hosted by the site itself with gasp an actual relationship with the advertisers or sponsors.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
All that just to find that the page doesn’t have the info you needed anyway.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
But made its best to make you stay on the page over the 12 second watermark or some SEO bullshit.
variants@possumpat.io 9 months ago
I hate when I look up som simple info for a game and you get to a page that just has all this generated text telling you how you want to know that simple info and how they are going to tell you that simple info on that site and how this game makes you do that simple thing and some background about what that game is
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s okay, we can just use the cached version, right? Right???
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Internet in 2024 (for me):
- Service unavailable in your country (VPN)
- Confirm you’re a human (VPN)
- Blank page (noscript)
- Obscure error (fingerprint / cookie blocking)
- Page not found (https required)
The percentage of websites that “just work” with privacy measures in place is depressingly small.
starry@suppo.fi 9 months ago
you have to put in extra work just to make your website not work with privacy measures. like you have to put in the work to use some bloated javascript framework that doesn’t work with noscript instead of just sticking with plain html and css, which would work. on top of that, i’ve encountered way too many big websites that don’t even have a noscript tag so all you see is a ghost layout or a blank page.
Kayana@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
That’s something I would disagree with though. “Sticking with plain HTML and CSS” is way more work, and often works significantly worse, than building a website with a framework.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I don’t mind frameworks, but some features that seem super useful to devs, like google analytics, and various diagnostic/logging tools, social media integrations, I would prefer to “opt in” when I decide they are necessary.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
honest question, what is the point of having noscript on at all times?
Plopp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not the person you’re asking and I’m running uMatrix instead of noscript to block scripts. But I do it to get more granular control over what my browser loads and runs. Why run scripts if a website works perfectly fine without them? These days I ain’t trusting shit out there on the web.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Technically it’s uBO, but I use the extreme setting that blocks all scripts by default. Truthfully I wasn’t aware just how many scripts get loaded especially on ecommerce and social media sites, there are too many heavy frameworks being used. Much of it is unnecessary bloat, slowing down my browser, and no small amount of it is devoted to tracking and data collection.
In general, I find less than half of loaded cripts are required to make a page functional. It’s a process requiring trial-and-error, but I have a good set of base rules in place for trusted sites and scripts.
For me, it’s about not giving websites free reign over my browser and by extension my computer and personal data, but having some measure of control over them.
And occasionally there are suspicious sites where I truly don’t want any scripts to run. I don’t even have to worry about them.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Are there even some left? Good old text+image-websites with pure information. Ahh the good old times.
But why #5? What do have against https?
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I require https, but not every website is secure, and sometimes the certificate has a problem or is expired.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
How is this a shitpost? It’s just true.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 9 months ago
To be fair I havent gotten one of those types of captchas in a while.
Dulusa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The thing your missing is, when you click only allow non essential, that means it’s still 700 companies tracking you because of the great term “legitimate interest”. That’s the one you need to deactivate and this usually one by one as shown in this post.
So yeah, you’re essentially allowing all the stuff the way you’re doing it
yamanii@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You will often get these captchas if you use a popular VPN.
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Might be because you trained yourself to avoid those sites that need them. I stopped using some SaaS because logging in was just too hard.
Kedly@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s VPN’s that’ll trigger the captchas. I never get them unless I forget to turn mine off after “hanging out with my peers”, and then a BUNCH of sites will captcha me
Sticker@lemy.nl 9 months ago
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.PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, too many sites I’ve done 3+ captchas and still won’t let me in, and not even the ones where 1 cell has either a shadow or a sliver of a bike tire. And reports that bots are now better at passing these than people. I won’t use a site with a pick-the-squares captcha anymore.
Click a slider is the most I’ll do. If anyone needs me I’ll be over here hanging out with the bots that are too shitty to pass a captcha.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
They think u a bot
EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had to disable user agents or else I could simply not look at any website “protected” by cloudflare
Vrtrx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
Dicska@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The ones I’ve seen disable the ‘consent’ bits by default, but then there’s ‘vendor preferences’ where ‘legitimate interest’ is automatically ON in 58 places (I’m not exaggerating; I have counted it) and you have to manually off all of them.
When you click the question mark at ‘legitimate interest’, all it says is some vendors are not asking for your consent to use your data but collect it based on their legitimate interest.
It’s infinitely vague and it has the vibe of ‘I’m not going to ask for it, I will just take it and I will use it for whatever I want anyway’.
XTornado@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Here in Spain they started making the option to either subscribe… Or accept the ads/tracking…
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Same in germany. That makes the whole thing even more useless, as everyone just is a subscription-based shit now…
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Just use reader mode, it bypasses all that shit.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Italy too.
Vrtrx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same with a lot of news outlets in Germany. Although it’s not that difficult for me to use only sites that allow disallowing every cookie or just bypass the cookie popup
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 months ago
[deleted]unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Inaccurate, the videos are never paused by default
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 9 months ago
All I get is a white page with a search bar and a link and description of example .com
oneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
On that page, click on the link with the text “then it shows me something”.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
That’s great. (Disable adblock)
chevy9294@monero.town 9 months ago
That is not funny anymore, but sad that every single site has atleast one of this things, average is 2-3.
tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
This is so lit
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
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
Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
quality meme, shitty reality
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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.
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Disable JavaScript and reload
Kase@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I just visited a site and selected the option to reject cookies. After doing this, the dialogue box would not go away, while a loading screen appeared. It was loading my new cookie preferences. This loading screen got stuck at 80% and hung there for almost a full minute.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Real reason why people just stay on the same four big-data-harvesting sites now.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 months ago
Website any% speedrun (no glitch)
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I know the hate for it abounds, but this is why I’ll often just try to look stuff up in a chat box with an AI, browsing has become exhausting.
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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).
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There are some sites so extremely annoying that I just get a mirror from archive.org or archive.is. I’m doing this with some news sites that will only allow me to browse them if I accept their cookies.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just hate the ones that block you for using Linux. User agent spoofers work but they’ll figure out how to block those someday.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 months ago
All I see is a cross in the upper right corner.
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 9 months ago
you guys can actually solve the captchas?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
just get some anti-adblock killing scripts into your adblocker dude.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t invent the torment nexus.
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Good news! We’ve invented the torment nexus