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Ask HN: Why Do Mailbox and Protonmail Have to Use GoogleCaptcha?
Isn't there a privacy-respecting Captcha? Tutanota doesn't use GoogleCaptcha, why can't they?
- nwrk 8y agohttps://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/human-verification/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/human-verifica...
- chaon 8y agoYes, but why can't they use one that's not Google? Tutanota can: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/ https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
- ToFab123 8y agoYes, a privacy focused product as proton mail should not be using anything Google.
- skinnymuch 8y agoWe know why captcha might be needed. The question is why Google’s.
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- zelphirkalt 8y agoSame mistake sooo many companies make. There will be some privacy-unaware people doing the web development and they will simply add some Google server without thinking about it in depth. Once it is in the system (and a whole lot of privacy out of the window), there are often internal resistances to changing it back to something privacy respecting. For example: The not knowing better person above the web developer responsible for the project does not want to allocate the time for changing a "working" feature. The web developers responsible for adding it in the first place do not want to admit mistake ("But it's working just fine!") or do not want to undo their own work. Laziness, unawareness and carelessness rule the world of web development, when it comes to privacy concerns. We have a looong way to go, until we have a population of privacy aware web developers. This is of course not to say that all web developers act this irresponsibly. However, how often do you have more aware people than unaware people, in order to overrule any decision made in unawareness? If you check regularly on websites what third party stuff they load, in case you have not done so, you might be surprised.