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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] starman@programming.dev 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I FUCKING HATE GOOGLE CAPTCHAS

Sometimes when I'm on VPN or TOR these little fucks won't let me in no matter what, but instead of showing error message or something, they just keep throwing new traffic lights or bicycles at me

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you are using Firefox, switch your default search engine to DuckDuckGo, haven't gotten a captcha from them once. And right in the search bar you can switch to Google if DDG isn't doing too well on a particular search, I do end up doing that about 5% of the time.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been using VPN, Firefox and DDG as default search engine for years and I'm filling captchas every single day.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Huh, I've been using a VPN for under a year, and DDG for just a couple of months, but I haven't had a captcha from them yet.

[–] Soggytoast@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of times those are the backup captchas, the normal one looks at your browser history instead. Using a VPN will change your IP and throw off the history logs, or a setting on your browser

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Nah, it's cause you're on an ip blacklist. While lots of people use vpns just for privacy reasons, there is also a lot of abuse from them and the ips get blacklisted frequently.