On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:02:24 -0800 (PST), Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com>
wrote:

I am posting this using Chrome. In the past few days what had been an intermittent problem of not being able to make it through the "I am not
a robot" challenge using Firefox has become a constant one. After
checking "Yes" and submitting, the next page shows the reCaptcha text
taking up the whole page, rather than a smaller window. It does not >continue to one of their puzzles, so I can't complete and submit.
Is this Google breaking functionality on Firefox just to be evil, or am
I doing something wrong? I pause Adblock on groups.google and
set Noscript to "trusted" for Google's scripts.

Or some site is determined to be /really, truly/ secure.

And they are: if you can't reach them, they are /very/ secure.

(I actually ran into something similar on a Federal retirement-related
site: first it emailed a magic code, then it insisted on my setting up
a telphonic code and using it right then, and then it offered setup
for biometrics -- and the button to skip did nothing at all. It was
/very/ secure, yes it was. Fortunately I was able to find out what I
wanted anyway.)

Perhaps not being reachable is the new standard in web security.

Yes, I know by Washington's birthday I will need a "real newsreader."

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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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In article <87dbdd5f-908b-4be2-a7ad-3d405331eb1fn@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 12:22:54=E2=80=AFPM UTC-5, Robert Carnegi= >e wrote:
[snip]

Also, James Nicoll has reCAPTCHA at=20
https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org=20
And cat pictures.

The challenge puzzle works for me at James' site,=20
in Firefox, so I still think this is a Google problem.

So many things are completely broken about Google Groups that it would be easier to enumerate the few things that actually work. For decades I have
been yelling about getting off of Google Groups and onto a service that actually works and now the deadline for being forced to do so is approaching. --scott
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Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> on Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:02:24 -0800 (PST)
typed in rec.arts.sf.written the following:

I am posting this using Chrome. In the past few days what had been an intermittent problem of not being able to make it through the "I am not
a robot" challenge using Firefox has become a constant one. After
checking "Yes" and submitting, the next page shows the reCaptcha text
taking up the whole page, rather than a smaller window. It does not
continue to one of their puzzles, so I can't complete and submit.
Is this Google breaking functionality on Firefox just to be evil,

Always a good first approximation.

Although I left Firefox years ago, as it seem to be headed into
the bloatware stage of program development.
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Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm)
Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm)

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