Comment by greggarious
3 years ago
Hi Folks!
I was not prompted to do a CAPTCHA logging in on the clearnet, but this may be my last batch of posts I do if that ever changes... for I will never consent to asking GOOG if I can post here.
Let us set aside the myriad of issues with visual CAPTCHAs and how they exclude folks with disabilities such as blindness.
There are other solutions like Hcaptcha[1] that do not use GOOG, a company which has strayed so far from it's "Don't be evil" mission that they went from supporting Mozilla via the search deal to moving the Chrome team into the same building, poaching key employees, and aggressively pushing folks so young they can't ask for help without violating COPPA to switch to a browser that would allow them to monitor them from cradle to the grave.
I greatly sympathize with the goal of an authentic dialog... trust me.
But using GOOG to accomplish it is not going to do that.
(The true threats to HN, like any democratic space, come not from automatons, but human beings. Only when you stop giving undue attention to the wrong... metrics... will you find the ecstatic truths you claim to seek.)
- "Greg"
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