I already hate them for access gating based on unnecessary labour, and deliberately making access more cumbersome for people not using chrome and using VPNs

But what really peeves me off, even though it’s much less important, is that they don’t localise them.

Where are the crosswalks? What the hell is a crosswalk. How many trolleys in this picture? None, that’s a picture of a tram!

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“I see no trucks, only lorries.” Being on a VPN has been getting worse and worse with CAPTCHAs, almost like I’m being punished for telling my ISP they have no right to sell the details of my internet use since I’m paying them.

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