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   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:

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

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     God, finally.

     OK, so: if you're tired of clicking the X on that "log in with google" dialog box on every goddamn website in the world but you still need gmail and docs, add this to your ublock origin rules.

     ||accounts.google.com$domain=~google.com

     That says "do not allow connections to accounts dot google com if we are not on a google dot com domain."

     If you do use "log in with google" for else this will break that.