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A one-click measure to circumvent a captcha is pretty good convenience-wise imo.


Sure, but google cache/archive pages often lack some images, have broken javascript, etc. Additionally, there's a huge difference between "point and click", and "point, click, click again, look for the plugin, another click, do this for every page".


> "point, click, click again, look for the plugin, another click, do this for every page".

Honestly, I don't know how I can make the process as complicated as you described it, even if I wanted to. In reality, it is no more complicated than right-click, open in new tab.


Smart Tor users have JavaScript turned off anyway. You might be lacking the images, but lately this has been pretty good on archive.org.


Thus cementing the "no convenience" clause. I understand this is an acceptable tradeoff for some people (myself included) but you can't pretend it's convenient.


Again, I disagree. Not every website today requires JavaScript, and in fact most websites that cater to the sort of audience that includes Tor users are even less likely to. I don't think anyone sees Tor as a daily driver for general web browsing. It's not much less convenient for the use-cases it's meant to support.


Give it a try for a week. You might be amazed how fast, calm and content-rich the web can be, if you disable Javascript by default and whitelist when needed.


I'm well aware of what the web is like without JS. I know it's usable. I'm saying it's not convenient.

Whitelisting is not convenient.

If people are pretending it is, they're doing a disservice to the security community. Kinda how like people pretend GPG is usable and convenient, thus holding back progress in the security UX front.


I find SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER and LIKE US ON SOCIAL MEDIAS popups and ads much more inconvenient.

Sorry for the late reply.




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