Could forum.dlang.org remember how many captchas I filled out?

[cy via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 20:24:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> It's run by the company behind Wordpress, which has less than 
> 500 employees.

Okay fine, maybe it's not Proctor and Gamble. But do you want to 
face up against 500 people and tell them to stop doing what they 
want?

> Maybe they could sort out why this is hitting you so hard, when 
> it doesn't affect others as much.

It's probably because I'm running a relay program that helps 
people with their privacy. I'm not an exit relay or anything, but 
it's a good business model for tracking companies like those guys 
to put pressure on people who run those programs even passively, 
so that they can keep me from helping others have any privacy.

> If you don't want to be profiled, you shouldn't use the web, as 
> it's not hard to track you:

The greatest achievement of any thief is to convince you it's 
pointless to try and stop them from stealing. Because then you 
try to convince others, and in doing so you help weaken the 
people trying to help you, and your own attackers gain more 
support.

So uh, don't ever tell anyone there's no point in trying to be 
safe. Even if you feel like it's true. If it is true, then 
there's no point in you telling anyone, right?

> https://panopticlick.eff.org

Yeah, that one has never managed to get me. Use a generic user 
agent, disallow javascript, and disable cookies, and the amount 
of certainty they can get goes down a whole lot. What you really 
have to worry about is who ISPs are in cahoots with, because ISPs 
can track a lot of people with 100% legal certainty, without 
their permission or awareness. The EFF thing is a minor, paltry 
concern compared to that.

Another thing to worry about is when people communicate using 
big, powerful centralized companies, like Google or Facebook. 
Organizations that have money and popularity can put pressure on 
people like me then, spending countless man hours developing 
tactics to prevent me from communicating with people, unless I 
allow their tracking software to run.

But Panopticlick is just an idle curiosity, security-wise.

> I agree that captchas, particularly the D ones used here, are 
> better.  The forum is OSS and written in D, you can submit a PR 
> or at least file an issue:
>
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

Oh, thanks. Maybe I'll do that!