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Do anti-bot checks feel excessive to anyone else? (lemmy.world)
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I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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[–] 32 points 2 days ago (1 child)

I've just considered it a casualty of the privacy wars.

I don't know if they're deployed as a "weapon of annoyance" or anything, but I do notice that when I'm using a) a degoogled browser, b) an ad-blocking dns, c) mask my location, and/or d) block my IP. Suddenly (almost) every website makes me wait by throwing that at me.

I think it's lowkey trying to annoy me to the point where I give up on having those privacy measures, but they underestimate my hatred of corporate fuckery.

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