Marco Zehe on Nostr: Yikes, this HCaptcha thing is a real nightmare. I managed to sign up with an email ...
Yikes, this HCaptcha thing is a real nightmare. I managed to sign up with an email address, and on Safari on iOS, it even set a cookie. But on Firefox on Windows? Even with advanced tracking protection disabled, and even though Firefox claimed it didn't detect any techniques that would follow me around on the web, it won't set that damn accessibility cookie. It is probably some weird protective setting that is on in Firefox and nowhere else, but I have been out of the loop for too long to actually find where I would look for it nowadays. The web is complicated sometimes...
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