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Firefox has. It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are

by hrktb 8y ago

Firefox has. It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are shared.

RaleyField 8y ago
> It screws third party logins and integration Sounds like a feature to me.
bogomipz 8y ago
>"It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are shared." Could you elaborate on this? Whats the connection between shared cookies and Google's captcha intenstity? Thanks.
- hrktb 8y ago
  There was this post a discussed here a few weeks ago: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi In short, Google uses part of its behavioral data to decide beforehand how much of a captcha is needed. With no data at all you get the full blown one.
  - bogomipz 8y ago
    Wow, from your link: >"As I noted only recently, Google reCAPTCHA has a 99,3 % global marketshare in CAPTCHA services. No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA uses Google’s knowledge and insights about you from tracking you around the web to determine whether you’re a computer or a human; instead of asking you to pass a cognitive tests. Google seem to have reduced confidence in their ability to identify you as a human with reduced tracking and an unusual number of unique users (every website is assigned different tracking/user ID/user instead of sharing the same ID) from your IP address." Google has literally become a gatekeeper for substantial part of the web. I had not seen that statistic before. I'm surprised this particular point is not discussed more. More recently I have just stopped using captchas when possible. I just won't sign up for the service. I'm not sure how else to fight this. The idea that you should penalized for trying to protect your privacy is truly reprehensible.

by hrktb 8y ago

Firefox has. It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are shared.

RaleyField 8y ago

> It screws third party logins and integration Sounds like a feature to me.

bogomipz 8y ago

>"It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are shared." Could you elaborate on this? Whats the connection between shared cookies and Google's captcha intenstity? Thanks.

hrktb 8y ago
There was this post a discussed here a few weeks ago: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi In short, Google uses part of its behavioral data to decide beforehand how much of a captcha is needed. With no data at all you get the full blown one.
- bogomipz 8y ago
  Wow, from your link: >"As I noted only recently, Google reCAPTCHA has a 99,3 % global marketshare in CAPTCHA services. No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA uses Google’s knowledge and insights about you from tracking you around the web to determine whether you’re a computer or a human; instead of asking you to pass a cognitive tests. Google seem to have reduced confidence in their ability to identify you as a human with reduced tracking and an unusual number of unique users (every website is assigned different tracking/user ID/user instead of sharing the same ID) from your IP address." Google has literally become a gatekeeper for substantial part of the web. I had not seen that statistic before. I'm surprised this particular point is not discussed more. More recently I have just stopped using captchas when possible. I just won't sign up for the service. I'm not sure how else to fight this. The idea that you should penalized for trying to protect your privacy is truly reprehensible.