A picture of a broken captcha asking me to disable my ad blocker, which I will not do.

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 03:52:55 JST mhoye

   I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

   And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that Google will lie to you at the dns level and blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

   In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

   ||fonts.googleapis.com

   And suddenly this goes away: