Archive.Today starting to use Google’s QR-based reCaptcha

#recaptcha #degoogle #datahoarder

The site has a few variant domains, unsure why, and archive.md, the one I’d been using, threw the QR reCaptcha just now, as per the attached image, while archive.today directly threw the good ol’ “try to verify a dozen times” version.

The recaptcha may appear even when the user is not using a VPN if it grows suspicious, meaning the site may soon be inaccessible without bending to Google.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.orgOP
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    24 days ago

    Jokes aside, Google isn’t there to make things easier, going by their modus operandi. Embrace, Expand, Extinguish, as Microsoft’s internal strategies found in a lawsuit from the early 2000’s would say.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I’m pretty sure they’re totally okay with screwing over thousands of potential users… As long as they can capture the identities of millions of them.