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Hacker News now uses Google Captcha
Just got hit with one.
1. Since when?
2. What for?
3. Bye and thank you for the fish.
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- haneefmubarak 8y agoHacker News uses CloudFlare, which uses ReCAPTCHA if it thinks malicious or excessive traffic might be coming from your IP address.
- auslander 8y agoI was pretty sure they have stopped using CF ..
- haneefmubarak 8y agoYou're right (my bad), they now use AWS. I imagine they're either using some other DDoS product or spun up something simple that does basic prevention, likely via CAPTCHA for suspect traffic. ReCAPTCHA is basically the industry standard when it comes to CAPTCHAs, so whomever likely just went with that instinctively.
- auslander 8y agoLast HN post from auslander, bitches :) It was a good run! Changed password to the blindly typed one. Google must die, lol
- sprremix 8y agoWhat's the purpose of that? You can still reset it