how much is that in feet

I don't think the audio challenge trains AI since it only plays a single clip. The visual challenge works because it mixes in answers it knows (to confirm you're a human) with answers it doesn't know (to train the AI)

My theory is that the audio challenge is purely for verification and they're okay with it not doing any training since a small minority of users will opt for it anyway.

Technically it doesn't fuck up the AI training; it just sidesteps it (still good and definitely easier)

From the article:

This will also impact other Chromium-based browsers, though the comment notes that "other browsers can continue supporting these if they so desire." Neowin points out that Microsoft Edge and Opera are likely to follow suit.

I've just been sticking with Firefox since it's open source and I trust uBlock Origin more than any other adblocker. (It even works great on Android)

Visiting that page with uBlock Origin enabled now warns that it's not official so I wouldn't trust it. I usually send people to https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#readmeinstead.

I hope I'm wrong and Loops takes off, but I imagine there isn't a lot of overlap between people who are thoughtful enough with their social media usage to want a a federated platform, and people who enjoy TikTok-style (short / vertical) videos

I've been using Pure Link on Android to make deleting the parameter a bit easier

It's vibecoded

https://kittygram.irelephant.net/p/DZXUYMsxtyA

https://kittygram.irelephant.net/p/DSS32EXEUvs