• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you’re using Firefox in general make them think you’re a bot. But actually they’ve already decided you’re definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.

  • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    "You already have your VPN installed

    You’re using firefox with ublock origin and noscript

    You load a page, it just works or its blank

    If its blank, you whitelist only the top level domain on noscript

    You read the page content with no ads, no popups, no referrers, trackers or unnecessary javascript bullshit."

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • You also have to wait 30 seconds to a minute for all the useless javascript to load and get in the way of you trying to find what you are looking for.
    • Then you’ll have to dodge an AI chatbot and various buttons for AI features trying to trick you into clicking them.
      • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I gave up on noscript years ago when more and more websites would break unless I allowed dozens of different domains for each, it became too much of a pain to manage. What’s the point if you’re forced to allow it for the page to load anyway? But it has been years, so maybe noscript has evolved to compensate for that?

        • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 months ago

          For really annoying pages i have to allow two or three other domains, and theres an element of guesswork unvolved in figuring out which scripts are relevant to the page loading or not. Thats only on the first time you visit that site. But on the sites where you want it most, id vastly prefer refreshing 2 or max 3 times allowing gradually additional scripts each time, than just letting them call whatever the fuck they want from whatever domain. Every time that happens i end up allowing 2 or 3 urls, and sometimes there’s about 40 that i dont recognize or actively don’t want.

        • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          uBlock can do the same things as noscript afaik, so you don’t even need noscript anymore (and yet Tor forces it…), but yeah other than saving your global and site based decisions, I’m not sure you can avoid having to toggle domains for every brand new site you visit…

  • testman@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    there was this satirical “web browsing simulator 2025” or something like that where you had to do all those things.
    but I don’t remember the exact name and can’t find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.

  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    Sorry but it’s old, dude… now you have to update it adding the steps for ID check, facial recognition and government approval.