resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
resist1984
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@beta ah, i overlooked the tabs. Thanks for the tip!
@beta i see a preference for "filter content: none, strict, moderate".. not sure what that filters
@vesperto @beta I've used 20+ searx instances. Searx nodes is usually what I use. They remedy part of the problem with a cache, but it's a far cry from what we need. Only one searx instance ever filtered out #CloudFlare sites, & it's not in service at the moment. AFAIK, no one even collects metrics on the other factors I mentioned (e.g. captcha)
@beta i know about mojeek. I like that they do their own crawling. Didn't know about metasearch.nl. Just did a search on it & all the results are reddit links. Is that expected? I don't blame users for the rankings- it's the search engineers job to design an engine that incorporates more criteria than popularity. I fault users for making lousy search engines popular though.
@methyltheobromine @duponin @kensanata lol.. spoke too soon.. i just saw the xkcd.
@kensanata @duponin @methyltheobromine #LISP is bad because: too many parenthesis.
Gabriel Weinburg refused, b/c he's more interested in profits than privacy or civil liberties.
When will search engines get smart enough to stop putting garbage websites on the 1st page of results? You know.. #CloudFlare, #CAPTCHA, obnoxious amounts of third party js, forced cookie agreement popups, forced acct creation to view the content, etc..
@joaopinheiro @westofer@mstdn.social @sss @kernpanik BTW, when a contact form pushes a CAPTCHA, I send my feedback as a paper letter, which I suspect (& hope) costs the other party more to respond or deal with than what they figure they're saving by using a #CAPTCHA.
@kernpanik @sss @westofer@mstdn.social @joaopinheiro Since we can't wait for the masses to smarten up, we need better tools. Suppose a search engine were to greatly lower the ranking of sites with #CAPTCHA, so that users don't encounter them in the 1st place. We need this.
@joaopinheiro @westofer@mstdn.social @sss @kernpanik i think most ppl are very broad in what sites they "need", & compare the inconvenience of #CAPTCHA solving to the inconvenience of looking elsewhere, so the CAPTCHA wins too often. I base that conjecture on the continued spread of #reCAPTCHA. If the masses had the constitution & discipline CAPTCHAs would die.
@cryptoxic BTW, I can't see your original post b/c toot.site is jailed in #CloudFlare. Then the archive.org #WaybackMachine says "This page is not available on the web because page does not exist". Plz consider switching nodes; the toot.site admin doesn't understand the purpose of the #fedi.
@cryptoxic In principle yes. It's similar to the #GMO labeling war (which corporate giants sadly won). But a CO2 label is non-trivial. Would the EPA do the calculation for every US product? Would other countries accept their calculation, & vice-versa?
@sss @westofer@mstdn.social @kernpanik The best way to pressure web admins to not use #CAPTCHA is to not solve them. Don't be an enabler; hit control-w when you see one.
@valleyforge Indeed they are. It's a very good idea to close accts at the evil giants (#Chase, #BofA, #WellsFargo, #Citibank, #FifthThird, etc). It's also a good idea to make your requests in writing. It's well worth the cost of a stamp to avoid the hold queue & then being cornered for interrogation.
US banks are a kind of law enforcement agency. When you call your bank, they will sometimes ask you questions irrelevant to your purpose for calling: "where do you live? who do you work for? what is your career? what is your annual income?" Treat these questions as if a cop is asking them (hint: don't answer them). They aren't asking for your benefit. It only works against you.
Joined Mar 2019
