I happened to click a link that took me to the associated twitter X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it’s nothing new. I’ve got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What’s the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you’ve encountered recently?

  • mox
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    1714 months ago

    Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed
    (grumble, unblock, reload)

    Verify you are human
    (click)

    …spin…spin…spin…
    Verify you are human
    (click)

    …spin…spin…spin…
    Verify you are human
    (click)

    …spin…spin…spin…
    Verify you are human
    (click)

    …spin…spin…spin…
    Verify you are human
    (click)

    …spin…spin…spin…

      • @noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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        584 months ago

        Privacy Pass will generate a number of random nonces that will be used as tokens

        British people making a double take

      • mox
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        4 months ago

        Interesting. A quick look at the description makes me think it could help with the inconvenience problem, but probably not with the allowing javascript problem. Still, I’ll have to take a closer look. Thanks for the link.

        Edit: Turns out it requires installing a browser extension. From Cloudflare. No thanks, but I’ll give it another look if the protocol ever gets implemented by browsers.

      • Kallioapina
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        14 months ago

        Doesnt seem to work for many people (Cloudflare has stopped supporting it?), judging by reading reviews on Mozilla extension store.

    • @progandy@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      … Spin … Spin … Spin …

      … Remember that you turned off your VPN

      … Turn it on

      … CF: OK, only humans use VPN, no need to show the challenge

    • Flying Squid
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      84 months ago

      You forgot:

      Click all the pictures of buses.
      (clicks)

      …spin…spin…spin…

      Click all the pictures of bicycles.
      (clicks)

      …spin…spin…spin…

      Click all the pictures of traffic lights.
      (clicks)

      …spin…spin…spin…

      • mox
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        54 months ago

        I didn’t forget; I just chose to highlight Cloudflare’s awful captcha instead of Google’s awful captcha. :)