alt Hacker Newsarchive.is just asked me for a QRcode scan, I'm so ashame of that crap (it's behind Cloudflare), forcing website visitors to KYC? Are you guys insane!?
the web is ruined if you push for this, this is millions of websites that will suddenly force KYC? What...the...f
By KYC, obviously it's because there is very few non-criminal ways to have a SIM without KYC and get a Google account for Playstore without a number, so every website visits will be attached to a real ID.
I don't use a stock Android, right now I literally can't access many websites, this is genuinely crazy.
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The water is already boiling and the frog can't get out anymore.
For me this archive.is thing has been unusable for a long time already, because they rely on Google Captcha for a long time already and I block Google shit by default. Allowing Google is probably equivalent to showing them your id, due to fingerprinting in the name of "safety". That's why archive.is is not helpful and usually just a tab I close again right away.
I just tried using archive.is on my non-degoogled phone using IronFox instead of Chrome and could not pass the recaptcha. Actually it presented me the mobile attestation on second try, but I was able to switch to images again. But I am also unable to pass that one with the tracking protections built into the browser. Hopefully some 'serious' website starts using this so I can bomb their customer support.
I thought archive.is were the ones squabbling with Cloudflare (extreme simplification)
Seriously? I didn't realize this was already happening. FWIW I still got the old captcha testing that site, and I often get flagged and blocked, though it's possible you're doing better.
You can still use the audio captcha, but I’m not sure how long that’ll be around.
i wondered the same earlier and i am pretty sure they are just mimicking cloudflare's validation page. no way that cloudflare is paying reCAPTCHA when they have theor product, turnstile, available.
What? Don't Cloudflare literally have their own CAPTCHA service? Why are they using reCAPTCHA?
Wow, This is really bad :-(
I think this is just gonna make viewing internet without a phone significantly harder especially with archive.is and the likes.
Not sure, how relevant this is to the discussion but if it helps, I have made a project[0] which allows to archive archive.is pages on archive.org/wayback machine (this uses singlefile)
Perhaps something like this can be used by community at scale too. Also, I hope that archive.is does something to fix this issue of requiring QR code and hopefully it doesn't become a permanent issue.
[0]: https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/htmlpipe-and-how-we-ca...
Interesting, the text says "reCAPTCHA doesn't share your details with this site", but it says nothing about sharing your details with Google. Which means yes?