They embed for a reason… And the captchas wouldn’t exist if they weren’t embedded anywhere

No, you’re wrong, the Traffic Light examples ARE specifically to gather data to train models.

No you’re wrong, because the sites that embed those captchas on their page are not doing that to help good.

If people just wanted a good captcha they wouldn’t need hundreds of millions of photos of street lights and bicycles.

Yes, they are getting something productive out of the human labor that would be done anyways. Trust me as a web developer, and web scraper, some kind of captcha is necessary for many free services to be useful/economically viable. The core of a good captcha is just making it marginally more expensive for the scraper/bot than it is for you.

That’s why companies like Oxylabs exist

Aren’t these Captchas designed to get training data for AI models anyway?

Yes and no, the captchas are just meant to be hard for computers to solve but easier for humans. People saw that, and thought that “if we’re making people do this might as well have them do something useful” not meant to be malevolent- and the purpose is still stopping bots, training them is a side-effect.

Just means they’ll get harder, but maybe not for people, just needs to be harder for a computer

Depends on the case, sometimes its unavoidable.

Other people see the signs than the drivers, a lot of them I think are for kids to nag their parents

I’d say a big part of it is that drivers already filter out billboards, but those info signs often have important information on them that drivers are expected to read

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Nah its a response to him

(although github eventually somewhat complied unfortunately)

I do, just like how VPN companies, Github, etc do

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I’m more alarmed when a government does it, but regardless, yea his motive might not actually be what he claims, it doesn’t really matter though since censorship is still bad

You know that Twitter isn’t banned in Turkiye and India because they complied with their requests for censure,

Yes, and I oppose that.

since you know, those are right wing governments run by strong men

Could be, could be he got fed up with it, idk.

Funny how free speech becomes the issue just when the requests come from governments whose ideology don’t align with this particular clown’s.

Um, no? Free speech was an issue then too. Someone can do good things and bad things. Censoring is bad, refusing to censor even if its just in one case is good.

you’re banned if you correctly call someone cis gendered.

Yes that’s bad

I don’t know what you’re misunderstanding, censorship is bad, its bad when Musk does it, and its really bad when a government does it. Because governments can shoot you and throw you in jail for not complying.

Well, from what I understand when X appoints a legal representative they will then be held responsible for refusing to ban. Is that wrong?

Idk, not my place to judge

good to know

sadly I happen to know the demographics of this site is mostly 25+

B. If we accept a Chinese version of Google then there’s no reason we can’t accept a Brazilian version of X.

You understand Google is banned in China because they wouldn’t accept censure right?