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This is a Call to Arms! Last evening I read an interesting article, and thought that I had some valuable insights to offer as a comment.
Instead I found myself stopped dead by a combination of Disqus and reCaptcha.
I typed a comment, then Disqus demanded that I authenticate myself. Fine. I chose Twitter, and it did its thing, then Disqus demanded that I give a username, e-mail address, and password. I typed those in, and Disqus told me that an account already existed for that address.
When I guessed the old password that matched the log-in, I discovered that Disqus had lost the comment that I had created seven or eight steps earlier. I gave up.
I decided to write the site operators. Their contact page won't let you see an e-mail address until you answer a reCaptcha challenge. I had to refresh THAT a dozen times before I could even try to read the words.
OK, from this day forward, if your site insists on either Disqus or reCaptcha, you will never see a comment from me! Let's start a revolution!
Surely we can come up with something better than this?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday September 03 2014, @06:33PM
There seem to be a large number of people who dislike Disquis. (I've never used it, so I don't know.) OTOH, I've got nothing against recaptcha. That *seems* to be an irrelevant connection.
So. His solution was for people to stop patronizing sites that use Disquis. I'm satisfied with just blocking it...or ignoring it. This does mean that I ignore all comments on some sites, but that's ok with me. I already spend too much time browsing. And if a site requires something I don't like to read (e.g. flash) I just never see it. (I don't have flash installed.) It's not like there aren't a lot of sites out there. Perhaps I'd already joined his "revolution" before he ever called for it, as I'm already doing what he suggested...just without the emotional drama.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.