Re: [LUG] Recaptcha was Re: Google Account

[comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>]

On 07/12/2020 20:17, Simon Waters wrote:
> Interesting, I use IPVanish, and Tor, and both often trigger various captchas.
>
> I don't find the issue is big websites, although the captchas are usually from
> CDNs. Looks like one CDN has culled almost of all of IPVanish's address space.

Tor is different - the (standard) endpoints are all well-known and 
invariably on the grey if not black list for pretty much everything on 
the internet. Captchas are the least of problems on Tor, nothing works 
normally!

I have multiple VPN providers available but prefer and recommend Mullvad 
(no affiliation, obviously). For whatever reason their endpoints seem to 
be less disliked by CDNs which is a bonus - even iplayer works through 
most of their UK endpoints. Mostly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://mullvad.net/en/

Note my policy for dealing with browser security is probably the 
opposite of what people might expect: I pretty much accept all standard 
crappy cookies and web snooping by default and let hostile webservers 
attempt to do what they want, within reason. The difference is 
presenting every webserver with a fresh blank container which is then 
immediately destroyed as soon as I exit the tab. Tabs can't communicate 
with each other in any way (unless I specify otherwise). Ublock rules 
for cutting specific bits of code that you want to get rid of for 
whatever reason are immensely powerful and the most important part of 
the puzzle for fine tuning.

I *really* resent the various players that have made the internet such a 
horrid mess of hostile crap.

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