> Please verify you are a human without any Ad Blockers turned on.
#Captcha dialogs that don't work unless you turn off your #adblocker .. of course you might allow the specific #tracker that makes the captcha functional, but not always clear which one to pick.
Yes, luckily that is very often the case. This happened on Crunchbase (which is as shitty as they come), where I tried to figure out which of a list of "FOSS" projects where actually having VC-funded crap shenanigans going on behind the scenes.
@martin_fff@smallcircles This is my default response too, most information online can be found on multiple locations anyway. There's almost no information worth going through this bullshit for.
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That’s not exactly the question. I also have not needed to use such websites so far, but this will change w/ #digitalTransformation. What happens when, e.g., the gov requires you to use their website for something, & the site imposes disabling the ad blocker?
I recently needed to reserve part of a road for house construction. The local gov has discontinued in-person applications for reserving public space. Thus I was forced to use their website.
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That website did not require disabling a popup blocker, but for other reasons I don’t recall, the website was unusable to me. So in the end I did not ask permission to use the road.
Note that #Mastodon’s webclient is dysfunctional to some extent with popup blockers. If you try to post an image and you want to add some alttext, the mechanism to add the text requires filling out a popup that’s broken if you block popups.
I chose other. I will try to circumvent in some way or other, but if that barrier becomes too high or impractical, I'll solve the captcha as an exception.
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