Editing Soot (section)

==== Captchas are back ====

[[File:Javascript captcha.png|thumb|<span style="color:#789922">>Noooo, not the h*ckin' JewScripterino!</span>]]

In an attempt to <s>curb spam</s> rile up the resident schizos, Soot re-introduced captchas on the site at the beginning of July. Instead of generating distorted images on the server, this new captcha generates them in the browser, and thus requires JavaScript to be enabled in order to be able to post.

This led users to believe that they're going to be datamined, tracked,<ref>See https://schemeflood.com/, which works even on Tor browser.</ref> or that a crypto-miner will be installed in the background.

The return of captchas was prophesized about three weeks prior, during the [[Colorfuljaks]] civil war, in the context of "Operation Bleached Bowl" (abbreviated to OBB), a conspiracy theory that posited that Jannies wanted to gaslight the userbase:

<blockquote>The wiki will turn pozzed due to the new mods (its already happening, OBB page will get fact checked shortly), then the imageboard will follow, get ready to fill out datamining captchas (Which soot has already trialed). be required to enable (((Javascript))), be unable to post with Tor/VPN/Proxies and be banned at the drop of a hat<ref>{{CitePost|board=suggest|no=4803|caption=/obb/ Operation Bleached Bowl General|date=June 12, 2021|url=https://archive.today/7g71T}}</ref></blockquote>

These fears may be true, after all. Soot stated that he fixed Vichan's built-in captcha with the help of an unnamed third party. '''Until these changes aren't made public, assume that the captcha IS datamining you.'''<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=128806|caption=soot, did you seriously implement a captcha that some random stranger "mailed you"?|date=July 4, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>

Remember, if someone says something along the lines of:

{{Quote|>B-but I don't see any strange requests in the network tab of the developer tools...}}

Or

{{Quote|>B-but I even checked with Wireshark and I can't see any personal data being sent anywhere...}}

They are shills, and you should just reply "MEDS". Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They're just using technical jargon in an attempt to sound trustworthy, like those sites that claim to have "military-grade encryption". Don't fall for their dirty tricks.