content: OH NO !! The Modern Internet seems RUINED **The Internet seems RUINED!**
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  Spambots, Scambots, Gibberish D-DOS attacks, and primarily retard diversity-hire coders RUINED THE WEB !
  
  This is what happens when I try to use the modern totally-shit Internet:
  
  **Mixer**  
      • I created an account at Mixer (video streaming, hoping that it would suck less than Twitch). Much to my initial surprise, it actually did let me register, and even sent the activation e-mail whose link I followed. However, when trying to *log in* to the "created" account, it *then* lets you know that "This e-mail address isn't allowed". Not another word. Just that. As if it were the registration form.
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  **GitHub**  
      • Recently, after Microsoft had bought GitHub, I tried to log in to an account of mine in order to reply to a reply on an issue thread. I was only mildly shocked to learn that they had locked me out with a message about having sent a "verification code" to the throwaway e-mail address I used when registering, obviously long since abandoned and inaccessible. Apparently, having *the right password* is no longer enough to prove that you control an account. (I could never get back into it, resulting in a dead end for the issue.)
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  **US newspaper's website**  
      • In early 2020, I tried to visit a US newspaper's website. This is the message that was dumped on me: "We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."
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  **Tor**  
      • If you use Tor, just forget about doing *anything whatsoever* (outside of .onion sites). Even *paid* VPNs and proxies are seen as a cancer to exterminate by site owners.
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  **Instagram**  
      • As a "nice" little Christmas present for 2019, I discovered that Instagram now demands an account and to be logged in to even just view profiles/photos at *all*! In other words, since Instagram (and all the other giants) consistently refuse all new accounts (unless you are fully tracked), it's no longer possible to use Instagram.
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  **Whitepages**  
      • On Whitepages (.com), no matter what absurd, obviously fake and impossible names you enter, it will *always* say: "We found Slasdotexamplefakename on Whitepages Premium", in an attempt to trick you into paying them money because the "person" you were looking for supposedly exists behind their paywall. This scam is somehow allowed to keep operating, just like countless other major/semi-governmental sites which get away with absolutely *anything*. I've pointed this "bug" out to the owners multiple times but they of course just ignore my e-mails.
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  **reCAPTCHA**  
      • The entire *point* of reCAPTCHA is to verify that you are human, right? Well, *think again*! This nonsense is what I now get *instead* of the "human challenge": "Your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. For more details visit our help page"... Amazing.
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  **Telegram**  
      • I was told to use Telegram, so I went to their site, surprisingly found an actual desktop application, downloaded and ran it... only to be immediately told to "enter my phone number". No "dismiss" or "skip" button. Next course of action? Uninstall.
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  **Slashdot**  
      • To my horror, I discovered one day in 2019 that "anonymous" posting has been disabled on Slashdot. (As if the constant insult of being called a "coward" wasn't already bad enough...) Registering an account involves a massive form of information, e-mail verification with an annoying forced "password reset", and of course a Google reCANCER blob. In other words, it's no longer possible to properly comment on articles. It was the last place where I could in any way make my little voice heard to a couple of other people.
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  **Stack Exchange**  
      • As I loaded the page for my own question on Stack Exchange after a day or so, it said "0" for the votes. However, when I accidentally opened it in a different "sandbox", not logged in, it said "-2". I reloaded both pages again to make sure it wasn't some temporary glitch. In other words, they don't even let you see the correct number of votes anymore...
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  **GitHub**  
      • I asked a series of questions on a GitHub project's "issues" section (prior to Microsoft buying it) and noticed that they were suddenly gone on all computers except my own, I was suddenly logged out, and I was unable to log in again with what I now realize was a fake error message. After weeks of experimenting, it eventually dawned upon me that a GitHub employee was the maintainer of the project/repository in question, and that he kept using some secret feature which underhandedly "stealth bans" anyone he didn't like. (I was not even being rude.)
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  **Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo/whatever free email**
      • I keep hearing people say things like: "Just get a secondary Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo/whatever! It takes like 5 minutes!" But when I actually *try* that, for the last 10+ years, they always lock me out with the dreaded "verify with phone" screen. Yes, no matter what country/"alternate e-mail" I pick, no matter which proxy, etc. And those "SMS inbox" services are all banned. Seriously. I've tried countless of them. *Paid* ones. They never work anymore from my IP or Browser choices.
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  **CoinBase BitCoin**
      • I needed to buy some *Bitcoin*. Every single centralized exchange now, not just CoinBase, requires "photo ID", in some cases attempting to make me take a photo of myself standing with my photo ID (which I don't even have, and won't be getting) in front of my face in the mirror... Naturally, this was never said up-front -- only *after* registering *and* (in some cases) sending them crypto coins, which they proceeded to keep perpetually "for my protection" (in other words, they stole it)...
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  **PayPal**
      • PayPal are literally *thieves*. I had a very old account (not tied to a USA bank account), with "Premium" (I believe that's what they called it) status even, which they one day locked me out of. No explanation. No responses whatsoever to my questions about what they were doing or why. Total, utter silence. They kept all of the money in the account and I could never again use it in any way. (To add insult to injury, they have kept sending me regular automated spam e-mails ever since.) Years later, when I tried to buy some software which happened to use PayPal as their card payment processor (that is, not their normal accounts), I was denied by their system because they had (permanently banned* my Visa card as well from ever making any transactions through their system...
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  **CloudFlare**
      • Countless web pages no longer even let me load them to passively consume their garbage content without displaying the CloudFlare mafia's nagscreen of death, with the Google reCAPTCHA spyware mocking you with its presence. I never even bother anymore. Luckily Cuckflare announced in April 2020 they are dumping Jewgle ReCaptcha.
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  **WT.Social**  
      • After reading on Slashdot that this WT.Social social network site had "exploded" in users in late 2019, I decided to register an account. After filling in the form and submitting it, the same page just reloaded, with most of the fields cleared. No error message of any kind. No indication that anything had happened whatsoever. I tried to log in with the information I had entered, but it said that there is no such account. I assumed that I must have accidentally reloaded the page instead of submitting the form, and thus repeated the registration once more. However, the exact same thing happened the second time as well; the page just reloaded without any kind of message. I don't even know what to comment on this one. Since the site is clearly broken, I don't believe that it has any users at all. It's just another purely fake scam.
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  **Google's reCAPTCHA**  
      • I keep getting locked out of accounts when companies start using Google's reCAPTCHA even for *logging in*. Google HATES non-Chrome Browsers. Google HATES VPNs and hates IP addresses not paired to a logged in Google Account. All attempts to contact the companies in question in order for them to have my account "whitelisted" from having to jump through these hoops have been unsuccessful. Google must track every single mouse click, and blocking it means you can't even *attempt* to get past their harassments...
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  **reCAPTCHA "robot holed" (tar pitted)**
      • Half the time if not logged into a Google account on a IP Google trusts, those Google reCAPTCHA puzzles never end. They just keep showing more and more new stupid "puzzles" for me to sit there like a monkey and click, click and click until the end of time or I eventually give up, kill the tab and forget about doing any of the basic tasks that no longer can be done in the dystopian surveillance nightmare that the Internet has turned into.
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  Surfing with Javascript off, and pretending to be a GoogleBot, restores 20% of web sites back to usability, but CloudFlare sites like voat.co BAN turning off javascript unless IP address is a proven GoogleBot IP block range.
  
  This slowly crept up on us all. The Web is now near total shit, and there needs to be a word or phrase created to represent every point above, because it fundamentally affects us all.
  
  **What phrase shall be used besides "The Modern Internet"? "Fucktard Sites?"**