Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe?
by makeitdouble on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:07PM
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I see it from two angles:
- on the benign intent and accidental violation: is it natural to go load fonts from a third party service in the first place ? I get why we arrived at this point, but hosting yourself the base resources you're using for your site shouldn't feel like some huge burden or leap from the norm.
If we really see a shared benefit to having fonts on some common platform, I'd also wish it wasn't Google. Perhaps Cloudflare or Fastly ?
- on IP being worthless to Google: is the "unless they get any link to your identity" even hypothetical ? I am a paying Google customer and extensively use their service. And we all do to some extent; trying the "let me live my daily life but block and avoid anything that touches Google" game would still be as critically punishing today as it was 4 or 5 years ago.
- on the benign intent and accidental violation: is it natural to go load fonts from a third party service in the first place ? I get why we arrived at this point, but hosting yourself the base resources you're using for your site shouldn't feel like some huge burden or leap from the norm.
If we really see a shared benefit to having fonts on some common platform, I'd also wish it wasn't Google. Perhaps Cloudflare or Fastly ?
- on IP being worthless to Google: is the "unless they get any link to your identity" even hypothetical ? I am a paying Google customer and extensively use their service. And we all do to some extent; trying the "let me live my daily life but block and avoid anything that touches Google" game would still be as critically punishing today as it was 4 or 5 years ago.