Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!

On 8/16/26 18:46, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 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.

   If I see this shit I *leave* in one second. NOT
   gonna put up with it.

   And, as said, you can't STEAL Linux because
   it's FREE - so, well, WTF ??? All I see is
   some trick trying to probe my box for who
   knows what.