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I wonder if there&#x27;s a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.<br><br>At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they&#x27;re done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a><br>

<p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#Web</a> <br>Vous savez quoi ?<br>Je trouve dommage que la plupart des interfaces &quot;sombres&quot; soient remplies de BLEU 🔵 .<br>Je préfère les rouges 🔴 ou les bruns 🟤 , c&#x27;est plus reposant pour les yeux (sutout le soir).<br>Dommage que pratiquement aucun thème ne propose ça.</p><p>Note: Et c&#x27;est la même chose sous Android avec l&#x27;appli Tusky. Du bleu du bleu du bleu.</p>

<p>Vivaldi 7.7 has arrived! 🎨</p><p>✅ All your tabs, structured, anywhere you need them<br>✅ Unified Start Page layout<br>✅ Brand new performance controls<br>✅ Privacy Dashboard redesigned<br>✅ Refined Mail panel</p><p>More on the update: <a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-7/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-7/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de</span><span class="invisible">sktop-7-7/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/browser/" rel="tag">#Browser</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#Web</a> <a href="/tags/vivaldi/" rel="tag">#Vivaldi</a> <a href="/tags/browsers/" rel="tag">#Browsers</a> <a href="/tags/app/" rel="tag">#App</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#macOS</a></p>

Downdetector wants to issue a cloudlfare challenge, but cannot because of the current cloudflare outage. Instead of letting me through or supplying a useful error message, this is what it says. As if I, and my ad blocker, are to blame.<br><br><br>Screenshot reads:<br><br>downdetector.com<br>Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/downdetector/" rel="tag">#DownDetector</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflareoutage/" rel="tag">#CloudflareOutage</a> <a href="/tags/everythingisbroken/" rel="tag">#EverythingIsBroken</a><br>

I&#x27;m glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven&#x27;t turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.<br><br><a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#firefox</a> <a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/smartissurveillance/" rel="tag">#SmartIsSurveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>

Is &quot;agentic web&quot; what they&#x27;re calling the successor to web3?<br><br><a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/agentic/" rel="tag">#Agentic</a> <a href="/tags/agenticweb/" rel="tag">#AgenticWeb</a><br>

<p>I‘m writing a free <a href="/tags/newsletter/" rel="tag">#newsletter</a> about personal websites and owning your work on the open <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a>. </p><p>The next issue might be ready and go out soon, so if you’re still looking for a few good New Year’s resolutions, you could add “sign up for Matthias‘s newsletter“ to the list. 😉</p><p><a href="https://ownyourweb.site" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ownyourweb.site</a></p>

<p>&gt; Unfortunately, after careful consideration, we&#x27;ve decided to move<br>forward with other candidates who more closely match our requirements for<br>this role</p><p>How I resent this idiotic piece of text, which is put into every damn rejection mail I receive since a year. More than 100 job applications sent out and no damn job afterwards. For fucks sake I was a senior <a href="/tags/developer/" rel="tag">#developer</a>, a master of <a href="/tags/ruby/" rel="tag">#ruby</a> who did the last two years at the job <a href="/tags/elixir/" rel="tag">#elixir</a> and guess what did all the other <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> backend related bullshit. Like administering <a href="/tags/postgresql/" rel="tag">#postgresql</a> doing the schema, designing the whole architecture of a legacy backend system written in ruby, writing backends, frontends with <a href="/tags/javascript/" rel="tag">#javascript</a> and guess what nothing. </p><p>I maintained so called <a href="/tags/microservices/" rel="tag">#microservices</a> on <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> with fucking <a href="/tags/docker/" rel="tag">#docker</a> which ran on <a href="/tags/openshift/" rel="tag">#openshift</a> or in the pedestrian terms &quot;<a href="/tags/kubernetes/" rel="tag">#kubernetes</a>&quot;. Nothing! </p><p>I started into being a <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/developer/" rel="tag">#developer</a> through the damn <a href="/tags/hacker/" rel="tag">#hacker</a> scene and was a &quot;founding member&quot; (whatever that means) of a <a href="/tags/hackerspace/" rel="tag">#hackerspace</a> out of which I was kicked out and still suffering the emotional scars. But yeah, fuck that I see. And probably I&#x27;m at fault 100% because that&#x27;s what this shitty <a href="/tags/shame/" rel="tag">#shame</a> based society wants to tell everybody.</p><p>In my free-time I dabbled with <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/smalltalk/" rel="tag">#smalltalk</a> and <a href="/tags/cpp/" rel="tag">#cpp</a> and <a href="/tags/clang/" rel="tag">#clang</a> and <a href="/tags/perl/" rel="tag">#perl</a> and I wrote <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#python</a> a little for money too and for extending a little <a href="/tags/django/" rel="tag">#django</a> app at a hackerspace. Yeah, sure this is also worth nothing.</p><p>I tried to do <a href="/tags/freelancing/" rel="tag">#freelancing</a> for 6 months, but guess what the current project market in <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> is shit and therefore nothing on the table for me either. While I find thousands of dimwits on reddits and everywhere, who are telling me that &quot;I&#x27;m not an entrepreneur&quot; or that &quot;I deserve X&quot;, because they simply don&#x27;t like what I write or my face.</p><p>Yeah sure, I&#x27;m 39 and I have no idea to go to, no damn <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> and for fucks sake seem to be now going to join team long-term unemployed... because... yeah absolutely no damn fucking idea why I&#x27;m in this mess. What I&#x27;m supposed to do and obviously nobody fucking cares anyway.</p><p>I once dreamed of being &quot;my own man&quot;, being that independent developer, coding happy <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> projects and contributing to <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> and getting paid for that. But no. World says no to that. World says &quot;go and die&quot;.</p><p><a href="/tags/job/" rel="tag">#job</a> <a href="/tags/hiring/" rel="tag">#hiring</a> <a href="/tags/getfedihired/" rel="tag">#getfedihired</a> <a href="/tags/gethired/" rel="tag">#gethired</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a></p>

<p>🧶 La Nostra Rete in tour! 🇮🇹</p><p>(English version in the following post)</p><p>Da domani partirà il fantasmagorico imperdibile tour de <a href="https://ournet.rocks/it/" rel="nofollow">La Nostra Rete</a>, che porterà il workshop in giro per l’Italia! ⛵</p><p>Se sarete nei luoghi in cui si terrà il laboratorio siete assolutamente invitatз, 🆓 l’ingresso è libero e gratuito. Se non foste nei paraggi, condividete appppalla con amicз tecnoscetticз, tecnoinnamoratз, tecnoasceticз, tecnorepellenti o tecnoindifferenti. Sono tuttз benvenutз 💕</p><p>Grazie alle persone stratopiche che mi ospiteranno! <span class="h-card"><a href="https://livellosegreto.it/@collettivodemand" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>collettivodemand</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@reclaimthetech" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reclaimthetech</span></a></span> </p><p>✨ Nota speciale: mentre sarò a Bologna, ci stiamo organizzando per trovarci di persona e partecipare collettivamente al <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediforum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fediforum</span></a></span>, tuttз insieme da <a href="https://municipiozero.it/scift/" rel="nofollow">Scift</a>, la nuova officina che aprirà domani a Làbas!</p><p>ℹ️ Per info aggiornate, visitate <a href="https://ournet.rocks/it/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ournet.rocks/it/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/lanostrarete/" rel="tag">#LaNostraRete</a> <a href="/tags/lanostraretetour/" rel="tag">#LaNostraReteTour</a> <a href="/tags/ournettour/" rel="tag">#OurNetTour</a> <a href="/tags/milano/" rel="tag">#Milano</a> <a href="/tags/falacosagiusta/" rel="tag">#FaLaCosaGiusta</a> <a href="/tags/napoli/" rel="tag">#Napoli</a> <a href="/tags/roma/" rel="tag">#Roma</a> <a href="/tags/velletri/" rel="tag">#Velletri</a> <a href="/tags/làbas/" rel="tag">#Làbas</a> <a href="/tags/urbanartlab/" rel="tag">#UrbanArtLab</a> <a href="/tags/bologna/" rel="tag">#Bologna</a> <a href="/tags/bolo/" rel="tag">#Bolo</a> <a href="/tags/verona/" rel="tag">#Verona</a> <a href="/tags/knittingourinternet/" rel="tag">#KnittingOurInternet</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#Internet</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#Web</a> <a href="/tags/dweb/" rel="tag">#DWeb</a> <a href="/tags/zero81/" rel="tag">#Zero81</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/decentralization/" rel="tag">#decentralization</a> <a href="/tags/decentralizzazione/" rel="tag">#decentralizzazione</a> <a href="/tags/demand/" rel="tag">#Demand</a> <a href="/tags/laboratorio/" rel="tag">#laboratorio</a> <a href="/tags/lab/" rel="tag">#lab</a></p>

<p>A Simple CSS Solution To Fix Element Blocking Page Anchor Links</p><p>Create the best website user experience possible using one of two simple Cascading Style Sheet properties to fix element blocking page anchor links.</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/fix-element-blocking-page-anchor-links-css/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/fix-element-blocking-page-anchor-links-css/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/fix-el</span><span class="invisible">ement-blocking-page-anchor-links-css/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#WebDev</a> <a href="/tags/css/" rel="tag">#CSS</a> <a href="/tags/website/" rel="tag">#website</a></p>

If Cloudflare really is &quot;verifying&quot; that I&#x27;m human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn&#x27;t it be able to verify I&#x27;m human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?<br><br><a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/securitytheater/" rel="tag">#SecurityTheater</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/darkpattern/" rel="tag">#DarkPattern</a><br>

I just had to &quot;prove&quot; I am human to view a shop listing for a refrigerator.<br><br><a href="/tags/captcha/" rel="tag">#captcha</a> <a href="/tags/bot/" rel="tag">#bot</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#CloudFlare</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>

<p>Did you every ask yourself whether your <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#Web</a> thingy is ready for an <a href="/tags/ipv6/" rel="tag">#IPv6</a>-only audience?</p><p>This question is surprisingly hard to answer as one has to account for resources dynamically loaded by JS and DNS dependencies. As a small step within <a href="/tags/sap/" rel="tag">#SAP</a> &#x27;s journey to become IPv6-only ready, I built an <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> tool that helps answering this question.</p><p>You can try out the IPv6 Web Resource Checker at <a href="https://webres6.dev.sap/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>webres6.dev.sap/</a> or fork it on <a href="https://github.com/SAP/webres6/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>github.com/SAP/webres6/</a></p><p>Let&#x27;s see who finds surprising scores</p>

<p>🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”</p><p>Dear <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span>, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find <span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.</p><p>If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?</p><p>(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)</p><p>CC <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nlnet</span></a></span> @[email protected] </p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/opentechfund/" rel="tag">#OpenTechFund</a> <a href="/tags/letsencrypt/" rel="tag">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="/tags/ssl/" rel="tag">#SSL</a> <a href="/tags/tls/" rel="tag">#TLS</a> <a href="/tags/encryption/" rel="tag">#encryption</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#EU</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/smallweb/" rel="tag">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="/tags/smalltech/" rel="tag">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@publictorsten</span><span class="invisible">/114223873439053263</span></a></p>

Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.<br><br><a href="/tags/2025/" rel="tag">#2025</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>

<p>If you&#x27;ve been using <a href="/tags/neocities/" rel="tag">#neocities</a> or <a href="/tags/nekoweb/" rel="tag">#nekoweb</a> to host your HTML site and you miss the convenience of *markdown and stuff,* I have a tutorial for you! It&#x27;s a quick no-nonsense guide through installing Eleventy and using it to add Markdown to your HTML website!</p><p><a href="https://github.com/nycki93/eleventy-for-neocities-users" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/nycki93/eleventy-for-neocities-users"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/nycki93/eleventy-fo</span><span class="invisible">r-neocities-users</span></a></p><p>edit: if you found this tutorial helpful, let me know! even just a &quot;yeah this worked&quot; is good feedback!</p><p><a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/cohost/" rel="tag">#cohost</a> <a href="/tags/markdown/" rel="tag">#markdown</a> <a href="/tags/eleventy/" rel="tag">#eleventy</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a></p>

&quot;This page has expired. Please click refresh.&quot;<br><br>Oh? It smelled fine to me.<br><br><a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a><br>

At some point Google Drive started preventing the context menu from appearing when you right-click something. I installed a browser extension that re-enabled this function. The modern web is quite tiresome.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/googledrive/" rel="tag">#GoogleDrive</a><br>

Oh, your service logged me out for my security? Great, I&#x27;ll just open up the vault that contains my private keys so that I can open up the password manager with the master password of my other vault, which has the credentials I&#x27;ll use to log back into my account. And then to finish the login process you&#x27;ll send me a one-time password in clear text through SMS or email because those are the only options you offer for a &quot;second factor&quot;. I feel much more secure now thank you.<br><br>(For clarity this is a sardonic post).<br><br><a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a><br>

<p>Did you know there is a book called &quot;Mastodon For Dummies&quot;?<br>It&#x27;s part of the widely read and well known &#x27;For Dummies&#x27; series.<br>This is the cover of the one I brought home from my local library.<br>Does your library have a copy? If not, maybe you can suggest a new acquisition! It&#x27;s only 14.99 US, 17.99 CAN, and 11.99 UK.</p><p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonhelp/" rel="tag">#MastodonHelp</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a></p>

Slack is giving me a very stern, very red warning that my web browser will not be supported after November.<br><br><a href="/tags/slack/" rel="tag">#slack</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>

Is it just me, or has the number of captcha challenges significantly increased over the past few months? Nowadays I feel like I&#x27;m being hit with captchas all day every day, where before it was relatively rare. It is especially noticeable on sites I visit frequently, have accounts with, and presumably have cookies for.<br><br><a href="/tags/captcha/" rel="tag">#captcha</a> <a href="/tags/securitytheater/" rel="tag">#SecurityTheater</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#CyberSecurity</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br><br><br>

Regarding last boost: &quot;Firefox For Web Developers&quot; is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.<br><br><a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#Mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#Firefox</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a><a href="/tags/antifeatures/" rel="tag">#antifeatures</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/noaiwebbrowsers/" rel="tag">#NoAIWebBrowsers</a> <a href="/tags/aicruft/" rel="tag">#AICruft</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>

<p>Stop Annoyances: Say No To DuckDuckGo Popup Advertisement</p><p>Stop annoyances in their tracks by saying no to DuckDuckGo popup advertisement using a content filter, alternative websites or the command line.</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/stop-annoyance-duckduckgo-popup-advertisement/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/stop-annoyance-duckduckgo-popup-advertisement/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/stop-a</span><span class="invisible">nnoyance-duckduckgo-popup-advertisement/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/contentfilter/" rel="tag">#ContentFilter</a> <a href="/tags/adblocker/" rel="tag">#AdBlocker</a> <a href="/tags/ublockorigin/" rel="tag">#uBlockOrigin</a> <a href="/tags/ghostery/" rel="tag">#Ghostery</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a></p>

Once again blocked from using a website I&#x27;ve used regularly for years because of &quot;unusual activity&quot; from &quot;your IP&quot;. After passing a captcha, no less.<br><br>Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.<br><br>This is a troubling trend because people who aren&#x27;t using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of &quot;security&quot;, enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.<br><br><a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/bot/" rel="tag">#bot</a> <a href="/tags/darkpattern/" rel="tag">#DarkPattern</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/checkpoint/" rel="tag">#checkpoint</a><br>