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> According to two security researchers who’ve studied reCaptcha, one of the ways that Google determines whether you’re a malicious user or not is whether you a
by miccah 7y ago
> According to two security researchers who’ve studied reCaptcha, one of the ways that Google determines whether you’re a malicious user or not is whether you already have a Google cookie installed on your browser.
This makes sense to me. The presence of cookies is a strong indicator of normal human browsing, and Google would only be able to see their own cookie.
- zcid 7y agoExcept a lot of people don't like Google having persistent cookies that track your web usage. Why should giving up that data be a prerequisite for accessing a website?
- themacguffinman 7y agoIt's not a prerequisite for accessing the website, it's just a prerequisite for skipping the captcha puzzle.