Same here. Firefox (RFP enabled) + ublock origin + VPN + Cookie autodelete (so no google cookies) and no captcha. I suspect it's mostly based on IP reputation.
I'm not logged in to google (I only logged in to google on chrome and use firefox for personal browsing) but I do have Privacy Pass extension installed. I haven't see cloudflare captcha for a long time ever since I installed Privacy Pass.
Uncapped gigabit fibre is now available to a significant and growing portion of our population, and in almost all circumstances you have 10+ ISPs to choose from. None of these local monopolies that America seems to suffer from.
We used to be an internet backwater, lagging behind Australia and far behind Europe/USA, but in the last 10 years we've really leapt into the 21st century.
yes I have gigabit fibre (in Dunedin), uncapped - I get close to full speed to local speedtest servers - but sadly only ~100Mb offshore to the US - 'sadly' because 100Mb is plenty for almost everything .... the big issue though is latency - speed of light and router delays across the Pacific
You can log into an @gmail.com Hangouts account through XMPP. The instructions on https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoGtalk worked for my account which is also accessed by Hangouts on Android L.
(At least person-to-person messaging works well - I have not attempted group chats or video or stuff)
Indeed. Google voice texts, group chats, and video stuff do not work. I get incoming audio chat requests on pidgin for google voice calls, but they don't work.
Everyone except China does play in the same game world on the same server. If CCP (Eve devs) had their way, China would play on that same server too.
But real life politik trumps video games, so that can't happen for now. Instead, the game is licenced to a Chinese company who runs their own instance for Chinese players so they can at least play the game - even if it's not with the rest of the world.
I wonder whether this was a commercial, cultural or geo-political decision. Does the CCP want to neutralise reactionary activity in Eve Online by controlling the server? Is there some political flavour to any of these alliances?
Some Chinese play on the world server but it's actually more or less illegal (wrt Chinese law) for them to do so...
Some years ago there was also an hilarious "invasion" of the Chinese servers by euro/US people, with patching the Chinese client to put it in English and using some stolen Chinese citizens national ID numbers in order to be able to subscribe... See http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?1733-Serenity-C...
Key point: "to you". I imagine that if the $0 option wasn't included, many of those who chose it would simply not "buy" it at all. So at least they get some marketing benefit out of it. Of course this works better for those "pay what you want" digital goods, where there isn't much marginal cost to giving away a copy.
