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Oh, btw, I've recently stumbled upon a VPN-service -- officially registered in country thousands of miles across the ocean from America, not even in Europe. That VPN was pretending to be about privacy and blablabla. The usual. Even offering static ips and port-forwarding (which is rare) and accepting BTC. But the coolest thing was how easy it was to just see through and know who they were: simple check of its IP and the associated ASN lead directly to this captcha-company name. Not to say that was a surprise - an amusement, more like - at how they put every little tentacle they can afford to use out there, to reach everybody, and especially the ones trying to avoid them.

So you keep it up. Waste the money. Even it's not yours, but taxpayers' money (which isn't unlikely). All in vain. And for what purpose? What goal? Who knows. Does it matter for us to try and guess if it ain't going to work?

Ah, privacy extension for your browser (which, of course, gets to have the permissions to read a lot of stuff that you read in it) from the captcha company itself. A company that is de-facto middlemen collecting 80% of internet traffic (with the ability to decrypt it) and the company that also regularly performs DDoS attacks on websites which are not yet under its so called shield. Sigh. You guys, you'll be history. Vanishing before anyone can even remember what the company name was. See, how can anyone threaten you like this without you just laughing it off, or ignoring it, or simply disregarding as some garbage unsubstantiated claims? And is this a threat? No, it isn't. You won't need any outside help with the vanishing. And the employees, who craft your code, laboring under the illusion they're doing good - some of them will wake up. Some will perish. And some will turn on you.

If I didn't know what I was talking about... then maybe, maybe, you could've said it's rubbish. But I've dealt with you. You're just another parasite. Only, a slightly less sophisticated in that the pace at which you consumed the web will be amplified when that same web consumes you, eventually. Maybe this world deserves parasites, but a better class of.

I guess my point is that it was still confusing. It took me a day or two to acquire a reflex. It obviously doesn't matter in the long run - you just get used to it - but I wonder why would US & Canada go a different way with regards to so many small things (think turn signals on cars being red for american cars as another example)? What would be the rationale? It's as if the western hemisphere was completely cut off from the rest of the world and had no idea how others were doing things. I don't quite understand it.

A bit of an off-topic: I only ever saw white traffic lights in the US and Canada (specifically, pedestrian traffic lights) and they confused me a lot at first - the rest of the world uses green. The icons displayed (hands) are confusing too: the rest of the world uses an icon of a man walking or standing.