It's no mistake that the new CAPTCHAs Google has been talking about involve scanning a QR code with a smartphone and using a camera. This is all about deanonymizing anyone who dares to use a VPN or Tor, which is why they make the existing CAPTCHAs as annoying as possible in the first place.
I'll start the clock until some Holocaust survivor has to do the 'Sieg Heil' salute during Passover to get access to their X account article is published at the end of Ramadan.
I'm pretty sure the Guardian and their ilk are already penning it.
If I were to use it the only acceptable hand gesture would be a middle finger display. Or, is there a hand gesture only blacks can use and is worthy of killing any white who displays it?
There's already a better way to do those stupid captcha things, I've seen it a few places where it just does some proof-of-work that is trivial calculation for a single device but detrimental to do en masse for a "robot".
One clever one I've seen is a huge captcha box, a static captcha, that says in captcha-font "put in the name at the top of the website". On a fandom forum webpage that had a self-refreshing banner character up top that changed on webpage refresh.
Also worked as a basic reading comprehension and intelligence test.
And people wonder why I still don't have a web cam in the Year of Our Lord 2026.
I have one of those Logitech USB ball cameras in a bag if I need a camera. QuickCam Pro 5000. It's 20 years old.
It's no mistake that the new CAPTCHAs Google has been talking about involve scanning a QR code with a smartphone and using a camera. This is all about deanonymizing anyone who dares to use a VPN or Tor, which is why they make the existing CAPTCHAs as annoying as possible in the first place.
I'll start the clock until some Holocaust survivor has to do the 'Sieg Heil' salute during Passover to get access to their X account article is published at the end of Ramadan.
I'm pretty sure the Guardian and their ilk are already penning it.
Google is literally having meetings where they laugh and plan new hilarious humiliation rituals to inflict on people.
https://i.ibb.co/jPdxkKhS/sony-patent-mcdonalds-feat.jpg
"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!"
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Thanks for reminding me, new phone means new black nail polish over the cameras.
I use vinyl dots. Every now and then I still need to take a picture of a serial number or obscure part that I need to find.
If I were to use it the only acceptable hand gesture would be a middle finger display. Or, is there a hand gesture only blacks can use and is worthy of killing any white who displays it?
There's already a better way to do those stupid captcha things, I've seen it a few places where it just does some proof-of-work that is trivial calculation for a single device but detrimental to do en masse for a "robot".
One clever one I've seen is a huge captcha box, a static captcha, that says in captcha-font "put in the name at the top of the website". On a fandom forum webpage that had a self-refreshing banner character up top that changed on webpage refresh.
Also worked as a basic reading comprehension and intelligence test.
Maybe i can finally buy some pokemon cards
shows middle finger*