Yo listen up here’s a story
About a little girl that lives in a furry world
And all day and all night and everything she sees
Is just furry like her inside and outside
librejs? it blocks all of the evil javascript (read: all of it)
I don’t understand how people can get by with disabling JS? Like aren’t 90% of modern website just straight up useless without it?
It’s fine 50% of the time & when it isn’t you can just whitelist a site if you care enough to use it.
Small price to pay for a quick and no nonsense Internet experience.
Honestly, if a site breaks and I have to click to either enable JS or close the tab, many times I just realize I didn’t really care enough and close the tab.
I decided to give it a try and was surprised to see more sites working without js than I expected. Most that work do so partially, but enough to be usable. I started going without js after testing and seeing how blazing fast my devices load the pages, and how lightweight everything becomes, so I played a bit by disabling js by default and whitelisting the things that didn’t.
Another benefit is having no popups, no cookie banners, no ads, nothing appearing out of nowhere in your face, no content changing place, no bullshit
i always feel safe when I see her.
i think it’s better then waiting for the captcha to load then pressing it and then waiting more for it to confirm
Fun fact, if recaptcha experiences any error it just feeds you more captchas forever.
You’re better off refreshing after you complete one and aren’t authenticated.
Another fun fact: most captchas, including recaptcha, are used to train AI. Some of the puzzle it will know the solution to (which is what it uses to verify that you’re not a bot), and the rest it won’t know the solution to and uses it to train AI. If you train your eye a bit you can eventually make pretty good guesses as to which part is which, and then go on to give the AI training part of the captcha wrong answers. There’s something satisfying to knowingly giving the captcha a wrong answer and get the green check mark anyway, pointing a middle finger at the people who thought they could get free AI training from you.
It used to be used to train text recognition software. It was super easy to tell which word was known vs unknown. The known word just looked like normal text that was edited to be kinda “wobbly” while the unknown text looked like an actual image or scan of a page. I’d always put “ass” for the unknown word.
The current iteration of captcha isn’t as straightforward in terms of identifying which is which.
