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Cake day: July 30th, 2023
  • activistPnk@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Google's reCAPTCHA Fails De-Googled Android Users, Impacting Privacy
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    1 month ago

    I would really prefer if users would just stop being pushovers. If people were wise enough to not solve CAPTCHAs, the problem would vanish. But ppl are too fucking lazy to use analog mechanisms.

    But ppl are pushovers.

    I tried to buy something online recently. The merchant’s website pushed a CAPTCHA as a precondition to submitting the order. WTF. People have become spineless pushovers to the point of doing work as customers, who never learned that it is the suppliers who must be subservient to the client. And because people have no discipline, the tyranny works. So the CAPTCHA-pushing merchant remains in business.

  • activistPnk@slrpnk.nettoDIY@slrpnk.net•DIY eBike Mid-Drive
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    2 months ago

    I appreciate the effort. Google has killed off most invideous instances so I only know of a few instances. I did not know about that one so I was happy to try it. But it gives a broken CAPTCHA. Took like 5 min to apparently do a proof of work problem, which in the end finally gave an “error, try again”. Had to switch to hCAPTCHA. After repeated enabling of a shit-ton of nested JavaScript, I was able to pass the hCAPTCHA. Then I could only watch the video, not save it. And there was no audio.

    Using yt-dlp yields: “ERROR: [generic] None: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> (caused by URLError(ConnectionRefusedError(111, ‘Connection refused’)))”

    I was trying to work out whether he came up with a torque sensor. With no audio, I can only guess. But there were some moments where he has his feet off the pedals and the motor is still cranking. Not sure if that means there is no torque sensor, a demo of a faulty torque sensor, or if he was testing a manual torque-sensor override mode.