I don't have a mobile device. Guess I'm not human anymore.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
335 points (99.4% liked)
Mildly Infuriating
46496 readers
40 users here now
Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that. Please post actually infuriating posts to !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
7. Content should match the theme of this community.
-Content should be Mildly infuriating. If your post better fits !Actually_Infuriating put it there.
-The Community !actuallyinfuriating has been born so that's where you should post the big stuff.
...
8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, but attribution is not required in any way. No links to Reddit in post body
-If you would like to provide a source link, do so in the comments but not in the post body.
...
...
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
First time I saw that, I immediately suspected a malware attack.
If it's not, it soon will be.
Wow. No.
Name the offending website please.
Google. It's their recaptcha service doing that. The QR code validation also gets rejected if you're using a privacy oriented mobile OS like Graphene.
At the cost of conditioning people into following orders from random qr codes
It looks like a Cloudflare interstitial. I also don't think sites get to choose which challenge types show up in reCAPTCHA, so this is on Google.
Isn't the site choosing to use recaptcha?
The site is using Cloudflare for DDoS protection, and unfortunately Cloudflare is probably the most effective tool for this. It also looks like it might be archive.org in the screenshot, and they've been dealing with a lot of DDoS attacks lately.
I don't think Google advertises "we force you to scan a QR code" as a feature of reCAPTCHA either, so it feels a little weird to me to blame the site for using a DDoS protection tool that in turn uses reCAPTCHA for human verification when Google randomly decides to add a new stupid challenge type.
load more comments
(1 replies)
None of these are about identifying if you're human, they're about identifying which human you are.
Really
How does that work?
The QR code thing I understand, but what about the “select all the fire hydrants” captchas?
They combine your browser fingerprint (what extensions you have installed, version, etc), your IP address, and how you move your mouse, how fast you click, etc. It's surprisingly accurate.
But isn’t that like 99% browser fingerprint and also the case with just about anything you do online, not just captchas?
Browser fingerprint (mostly) identifies the device. The captcha is to narrow that down even further to the person.
Not to excuse Google's practices, but you can select the eye icon to continue training an AI to detect buses and bikes.
Oh, thanks for letting me know. I missed that one, as it isn't all that clear that's what it does.
I also use an extension called buster that automatically solves the audio accessible captcha challenge.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I tried watching some yt in librewolf made me do 5 captchas an i had to switch vpn location so fuck google
Doesn't yt-dlp still work? Could go that route, then just delete the video if you don't want it afterwards
I have degoogled but YT is the only thing I’m stuck with. The monopoly is too much to overcome.
Use a VPN in Albania. No signin, no ads, its great
load more comments
(40 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Man i will nope out if this website so quick.
Beware it'd be quite easy to decensor that qr from the image.
Recaptcha users will experience some visitor losses.
I'll get hate for referencing a solution that involves AI, but this looks promising: https://github.com/Captcha-Sonic/CaptchaSonic-Extension
Lmao so the captchas don't even do anything anyway. Except harass us.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
Such a gem of a movie
I see phishing opportunity here. Thanks Google
view more: next ›