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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by birdwing to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Has this occurred to y'all? My browser as of lately suddenly checks. Even if I just search on "remove trackers" and a lot of normal links, I get the note "we nEed to VEriFY yOURE not a ROBOT"... it feels like Cloudflare et al are trying to force man in the middle attacks on you. And this also occurs on other browsers with other kinds of ""verifiers"".

The web's becoming cancerous. I hate this.

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[-] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

All the time. There's occasionally even websites that outright block me without challenge, run many iterations on my machine, or present a tiresome amount of CAPTCHAs (Waymo machine vision must be trained pretty well, from me labeling goddamn traffic lights, motorcycles and stairs throughout the day). Especially CAPTCHAs that load new pictures with an infuriatingly slow fade animation drive me up the wall; one of which possibly not even sufficient.

But I take it as a compliment, as it might mean my browser profile is minimal enough to trip these systems into thinking it's a headless browser (typically used for bot traffic).

[-] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Love the last statement.

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