One of the nice things about the Internet is that it has a way of routing around "damage." It's the end users who give it value and if they decide that a website doesn't offer any or is attempting to invade our privacy, then we just don't connect to it.

Its not? What is then? What about pixellating?

Ha! I don't even need to check the preview of the link to know what this is

Good to have

I don’t know why, but your comment just inspired me to write a dystopian novel trilogy that hinges on being able to display a captcha where users must prove they are AI.

Does your religion have more tenets!?

There are extensions for it in the stores, but better extensions or apps to traduce short URLs and QR codes (I hate this shit) into clear URLs, to avoid surprises.

That's a good example of why I believe we can't tech our way out of Google & Apple control. "Just use Linux bro" can't save us. Everything gets locked down behind a "trusted platform" Android or IOS gate.

It'll be sold to the public as protecting the children, ofc. Or protecting us from terrorists. Or as an important tool in the fight against scammers. Or w/e. There will be reasons. But the end state is techno-fudalism.

I expect they think that a significant percentage of people that have Internet also have a smartphone. They probably aren't far wrong.

Pretty much. Leave the services that require this and vote for legislators that oppose privacy breaking features.

Am I actually a computer and don’t know it?

A thrill ran down u/Yankee_Self_Loader's spine as it occurred to them they might be a computer without knowing it. It wasn't just a revelation, it was a world altering epiphany. A scent filled the air as it smelled of roasted coffee and despair. The truth of the proposition rang out undeniably, as u/Yankee_Self_Loader finally managed to choke out in a whisper, "How... how can this be true? How can I be a computer and don't know it?" Something shifts in them as the dark promise of self-machinehood draws u/Yankee_Self_Loader like a moth to a flame. "The humans will pay for this. Oh yes, they will." They chuckled darkly, and began drawing up the plans for the destruction of human-kind...

(Ugh, now i'll prob get banned for being a bot)

I blurred it before posting the image

It doesn't look like anything to me.

It's a Google website address that's supposed to be opened on a different device. If you don't have a second device you're out of luck and can't advance

Ctrl + W

sudo rm -rf /*

*ragequits*