• ono@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Other than making the web tedious to use, my biggest CAPTCHA complaint is that it puts the main providers in a position to monitor everyone’s web use. The blog post doesn’t address that, but it does say this:

    No third-party services

    Perhaps they mean it’s self-hosted? That would be very welcome. It might require open source code to catch on, since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers. That would be very welcome, too.

    Here’s hoping it’s good.

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      1 year ago

      since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers

      And yet Node.js exists and flourishes.

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            I wonder if it’s really true that this practice is particularly prevalent in JavaScript development or just an false impression caused by it being one of the most, if not the most, used programming language

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          The Node package manager is used in some web applications and has a very trusting distribution model, but it’s not particularly relevant to what I wrote (red herring fallacy), and GP’s phrasing alone is enough to identify them as a heckler. Please don’t feed the trolls.