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I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by DanForever to c/technology
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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed
(grumble, unblock, reload)

Verify you are human
(click)

...spin...spin......spin...
Verify you are human
(click)

...spin...spin......spin...
Verify you are human
(click)

...spin...spin......spin...
Verify you are human
(click)

...spin...spin......spin...
Verify you are human
(click)

...spin...spin......spin...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

https://privacypass.github.io/ has helped somewhat

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Privacy Pass will generate a number of random nonces that will be used as tokens

British people making a double take

[–] theilleists 8 points 3 months ago

Privacy Pass just randomly generated Prince Andrew and now my browser is all sweaty.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Interesting. A quick look at the description makes me think it could help with the inconvenience problem, but probably not with the allowing javascript problem. Still, I'll have to take a closer look. Thanks for the link.

Edit: Turns out it requires installing a browser extension. From Cloudflare. No thanks, but I'll give it another look if the protocol ever gets implemented by browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Doesnt seem to work for many people (Cloudflare has stopped supporting it?), judging by reading reviews on Mozilla extension store.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

... Spin ... Spin ... Spin ...

... Remember that you turned off your VPN

... Turn it on

... CF: OK, only humans use VPN, no need to show the challenge

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You forgot:

Click all the pictures of buses.
(clicks)

...spin...spin...spin...

Click all the pictures of bicycles.
(clicks)

...spin...spin...spin...

Click all the pictures of traffic lights.
(clicks)

...spin...spin...spin...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I didn't forget; I just chose to highlight Cloudflare's awful captcha instead of Google's awful captcha. :)

[–] acetanilide 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Click all the objects heavier than this one

...spin...spin...spin...