Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!
[email protected] (Computer Nerd Kev)
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rbowman <[email protected]> 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. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#