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| Message-ID | <6a823db1@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| References | <c6qdnZnITb1x9xz3nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@giganews.com> <neefbbFpk4lU13@mid.individual.net> |
| Date | 2026-08-17 08:46 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote: > I hate to tell you but I think your world is going to shrink. I didn't hit > the verification with Brave on two different machines. I think that's > because I'd been there before and they'd dropped a cookie. OMG cookies! There are a lot of things they check. One that had me puzzled for a long time was hardware graphics acceleration for WebGL 2 (etc.). The Javascript can somehow detect that you're using a software OpenGL render (eg. swrast in Mesa) instead of a GPU, and assumes it must be running on a server, instead of a personal computer with an old GPU or broken drivers. One major Australian website blocks me entirely on that basis - doesn't even give me a captcha to solve. No GPU = can't be human, apparantly. No more visits from this human anyway - what rot that I'd need to have GPU rendering working on computers where I'd never need that except to get in to those websites showing just text and static images. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-16 03:47 -0400
Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-16 18:54 +0000
Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-08-17 08:46 +1000
Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-16 23:46 -0400
Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-08-16 23:44 -0400
Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-17 03:54 +0000
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