I get slapped in my face with this shit on many many sites and it’s annoys the hell out of me.

I don’t even do anything shady ever. I have scraped a website once. Apart from that I try to use privacy respecting stuff like Firefox with addons. Have cookies delete at the end of the session though I don’t know if it does anything.

I have read that reCaptcha gets easier or harder depending on how Google has profiled you.

Why am I helping train AI models if I am a complete normie?

    • dirtfindr
      6·
      4 years ago

      Bingo. Boycotting is the real answer. Otherwise if you dance for them, you serve as an enabler. It’s not worth it.

      And when it’s the public sector (i.e. talking to a government office that you can’t boycott), I write an old-fashioned letter, print it out on paper, put a fucking stamp on it, and go to the fucking mailbox like it’s the 1980s. There is satisfaction in knowing that someone has to open that shit up and perhaps manually do some data entry or scanning.