Attention Google re Captchas
You people are here on this list, reading it, we know this. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world. You are ridiculous in your wanton use of captchas against tor users. Your bandwidth and processing capabilities are on par with that disgusting Facebook, and with the largest of all entities. All supported by advertising and datamining and anti-anon/freedom things. You demand simple phone numbers and captchas instead of making creative heuristics. The bandwidth and assault thrown at you via tor is relatively trivial in respect and highly sustainable in proportion to clearnet (prove otherwise, including disclosure of your resources and metrics). Yet you are choosing to profiteer off tor users brain cycles without compensation, shame on you, by forcing them to complete and process on average three or more sets of vision captchas comprising many images for your gain, while clearnet needs to process zero in a relative number of cases. Yet everyone must still supply mineable phone numbers. You deny even "google search" and "translate" to tor users, the key to worldwide understanding of peoples in communication with each other, the most vital to peace. That is bullshit. We want peace, not war, and yet you seem to support artificial divides. You say "errors occurred in your request, cannot process your request further". For simple searches via tor, even after triplicate successful captchas. What the fuck is that!!! Why do you hate peoples? In short, and on behalf of tor users worldwide, *fuck you* google!!! You can do better. And pray you be forgiven.
On 01/17/2017 12:42 AM, grarpamp wrote:
You people are here on this list, reading it, we know this. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world. You are ridiculous in your wanton use of captchas against tor users. [...] In short, and on behalf of tor users worldwide, *fuck you* google!!! You can do better. And pray you be forgiven.
Unfortunately, as long as you keep using Gmail, it rings hollow. If you are serious about giving Google the middle finger, migrate away from Gmail to a different email provider, and for that matter migrate away from as many other Google products/services that you possibly can (YouTube, Blogger, etc). For videos there's Vimeo among others, and for blogging there's WordPress.com (or the self-hosted version of WordPress) among others. There's also DuckDuckGo for most searches if you want to start giving Google the finger immediately. DuckDuckGo has never given thrown a captcha at me when I browse via Tor. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> wrote:
If you are serious about giving [*] the middle finger, migrate away from
Cpunks and google are known adversaries with their own respective solutions. That's understood and irrelavant. It's about the masses... legit cpunks actually care about them. That's where your suggestions, among others from others for others, are valid. And where cpunks respective rants against the google types are on point. Regardless, "fuck you" to Google re this whole subject.
On 01/17/2017 01:33 AM, grarpamp wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> wrote:
If you are serious about giving [*] the middle finger, migrate away from
Cpunks and google are known adversaries with their own respective solutions. That's understood and irrelavant. It's about the masses... legit cpunks actually care about them. That's where your suggestions, among others from others for others, are valid. And where cpunks respective rants against the google types are on point. Regardless, "fuck you" to Google re this whole subject.
What I'm getting at is the only real way to get Google's attention is for people (like you) to stop using their services. For as long as I could I avoided even emailing Gmail address until it just became impossible to avoid. As an aside I wish there was an alternative to Android that was truly free (as in freedom). Android is the least of the three (remaining) evils, but having the three choices whittled down to Apple, Microsoft, or Google is enough to make me sick at my stomach when I really think about it. The lack of decent apps available as free software (as in freedom, as in GPL/MIT/BSD license) is also a huge disappointment, on top of the gymnastics required to compile and install from source (it's so obvious they intend for almost nobody to do so). -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
the only real way to get Google's attention is for people (like you) to stop using their services.
No! That is what they want, for you to go quietly into the night, as but one irrelavant, quiescent and subservient account amongst hundreds of millions. But to legitimately bash them, from their own system, in public... oh ye doth bring forth the gods in your favor.
As an aside I wish there was an alternative to Android
Strip out all the google shit and recompile.
The lack of decent apps available as free software
f-droid.org ?
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