Re: hackint IRC channel for FSD

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-06-28 02:05, quiliro@riseup.net wrote:
> bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:
>
>> i wont argue that - "requires" is not the appropriate word
>> though - using IRC does not "require" a web browser - per the
>> GNU/FSDG terminology, that example would be "recommending" or
>> "steering toward" non-free software
>>
>> anyways, you can easily check this yourself - neither appears to
>> have any captcha
>>
>> https://webchat.freenode.net/
>> https://web.libera.chat/
> As I recall, most of the time it did not ask for Google catcha.  But
> when I changed the browser in some way it required captcha to enter and
> by other unknow reasons on other occasions also.  It would be good to
> audit it profoundly.  Perhaps the situation has changed.
>
If you cannot trigger Google reCAPTCHA and give us the precise steps how
you triggered it, then I think we're safe.