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This is probably a good idea in theory. In practice, it might lower your internal ReCAPTCHA score and end up prompting you more actual CAPTCHAs, possibly up to

This is probably a good idea in theory. In practice, it might lower your internal ReCAPTCHA score and end up prompting you more actual CAPTCHAs, possibly up to unsolvable[1] ones. [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661

xfs 8y ago
... a tarpit nominally designed for bot detection and anti-spam. I'm sure the patent wasn't created with sinister motives but it somehow enforced a system in which you have to either accept full surveillance or end up being increasingly excluded from the socioeconomic sphere. This is the danger of solving the human factor with pure technological means - it doesn't really solve it, instead the human conflict is transported into a more radical one.
- glogla 8y ago
  Since Google deletes you wife's gmail if you sell your nexus (or how it was), I don't think so.
  - ViViDboarder 8y ago
    Huh? I’ve sold many Nexus phones and my wife’s Gmail is perfectly intact.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
I'm sorry, but how on Earth is that a patent? Things like this make me believe less in patent reform, and more in complete abolishment.
- jammygit 8y ago
  what worries me about patent abolishment is the contracts employees would have to sign to work places. It would make career maneuverability absolutely brutal if every single thing was a trade secret.
gruez 8y ago
I don’t think you need to worry about that. In my experience, unless your IP has really bad reputation (think tor exit nodes), a normal browser with a fresh profile will get an easy captcha (2-3 pictures at most).
- driverdan 8y ago
  If you enable privacy.resistFingerprinting recaptcha becomes much harder and it always asks for multiple captchas.
amelius 8y ago
That would be a good reason to quit using Google services altogether.
- andai 8y ago
  When using Tor Browser I often get (Google) Captchas on all sorts of websites, before I'm even allowed to load the page. (I think it's integrated into CloudFlare's DDoS protection?) These are typically pretty straightforward (although tedious) but on some Tor circuits it just never lets me through: the endless "Please try again". That is to say, if Google's Catcha bot does not like you[r IP], many other parts of the internet stop working, too.
woodrowbarlow 8y ago
anecdotally: i run a fairly fingerprint-resilient browser setup (using firefox containers plus additional measures) and, while i am asked for full CAPTCHAs every single time, i haven't yet noticed them increasing in difficulty.

xfs 8y ago

... a tarpit nominally designed for bot detection and anti-spam. I'm sure the patent wasn't created with sinister motives but it somehow enforced a system in which you have to either accept full surveillance or end up being increasingly excluded from the socioeconomic sphere. This is the danger of solving the human factor with pure technological means - it doesn't really solve it, instead the human conflict is transported into a more radical one.

glogla 8y ago
Since Google deletes you wife's gmail if you sell your nexus (or how it was), I don't think so.
- ViViDboarder 8y ago
  Huh? I’ve sold many Nexus phones and my wife’s Gmail is perfectly intact.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

I'm sorry, but how on Earth is that a patent? Things like this make me believe less in patent reform, and more in complete abolishment.

jammygit 8y ago
what worries me about patent abolishment is the contracts employees would have to sign to work places. It would make career maneuverability absolutely brutal if every single thing was a trade secret.

gruez 8y ago

I don’t think you need to worry about that. In my experience, unless your IP has really bad reputation (think tor exit nodes), a normal browser with a fresh profile will get an easy captcha (2-3 pictures at most).

driverdan 8y ago
If you enable privacy.resistFingerprinting recaptcha becomes much harder and it always asks for multiple captchas.

amelius 8y ago

That would be a good reason to quit using Google services altogether.

andai 8y ago
When using Tor Browser I often get (Google) Captchas on all sorts of websites, before I'm even allowed to load the page. (I think it's integrated into CloudFlare's DDoS protection?) These are typically pretty straightforward (although tedious) but on some Tor circuits it just never lets me through: the endless "Please try again". That is to say, if Google's Catcha bot does not like you[r IP], many other parts of the internet stop working, too.

woodrowbarlow 8y ago

anecdotally: i run a fairly fingerprint-resilient browser setup (using firefox containers plus additional measures) and, while i am asked for full CAPTCHAs every single time, i haven't yet noticed them increasing in difficulty.