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Founder of HCaptcha here. Have you tried our privacy pass or accessibility features?

cycloptic 6y ago
Can you please open source your frontend code? The net absolutely needs a captcha that has made a promise to not run tracking code, and sticks to that by providing transparency. Google is not doing it and has only increased the amount of tracking code. If you're doing things correctly the obfuscation of the data coming from the backend is what would be critical to keeping bots out, not the actual code administering the turing test on the frontend.
samoa42 6y ago
lol wut
- smnthermes 6y ago
  Idem.
wintermutestwin 6y ago
https://imgur.com/tyZnANQ https://imgur.com/tyZnANQ Firefox through a VPN and every site that uses hcaptcha throws this up and doesn't let me in. You're the one who is responsible for this web cancer? You purposefully disable access to VPN users and then try to pass off a "privacy pass?"
- mcpeepants 6y ago
  Cloudflare is responsible for deciding you need a captcha...
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    This is exactly the position Google tried to put themselves in with reCAPTCHAv3, where they simply provide a “score” and websites now make the decision of blocking users themselves, absolving Google of any blame. If your captcha gives scores to real users that would cause everyone to block them, that’s on you.
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Glyptodon 6y ago
HCaptcha makes me do a lot more work to be considered a human, and I end up having to do it more often.
jakearmitage 6y ago
Your privacy pass is useless. You ruined shopping for me and several others on niche e-commerce. So much that the e-commerce owners had to add my IP as a whitelist. I'm glad I buy a lot, otherwise me and them would be screwed. Destroying people's businesses is not nice. That's why no one cares about security, "security engineers" don't test or measure the impact of their strict measures.
jchook 6y ago
Privacy pass (beta) has dubious privacy claims and does not work on (most?) mobile browsers because it requires a browser extension.
whatsmyusername 6y ago
Why would I sign up for something from your service to get around your service? I'll just bounce and use one of your customers competitors.
- gatgeagent 6y ago
  I just close the tab when I see an reCaptcha checkbox. hCaptcha is fine, I can totally not see what everyones problem is with hCaptcha.
gatgeagent 6y ago
I absolutely love Cloudflares switch from Googles absolute shit of reCaptcha to the new hCaptcha. I still have to fill it out twice, but it takes like < 30 seconds to complete my action and get on with my life. With Googles reCaptcha I always wasted ~10 minutes (this is not an overstatement) and was sometimes still unable to do anything. I'm really grateful for hCaptcha as it somehow simply works.

Can you please open source your frontend code? The net absolutely needs a captcha that has made a promise to not run tracking code, and sticks to that by providing transparency. Google is not doing it and has only increased the amount of tracking code. If you're doing things correctly the obfuscation of the data coming from the backend is what would be critical to keeping bots out, not the actual code administering the turing test on the frontend.

samoa42 6y ago

lol wut

smnthermes 6y ago
Idem.

wintermutestwin 6y ago

https://imgur.com/tyZnANQ https://imgur.com/tyZnANQ Firefox through a VPN and every site that uses hcaptcha throws this up and doesn't let me in. You're the one who is responsible for this web cancer? You purposefully disable access to VPN users and then try to pass off a "privacy pass?"

mcpeepants 6y ago
Cloudflare is responsible for deciding you need a captcha...
- saagarjha 6y ago
  This is exactly the position Google tried to put themselves in with reCAPTCHAv3, where they simply provide a “score” and websites now make the decision of blocking users themselves, absolving Google of any blame. If your captcha gives scores to real users that would cause everyone to block them, that’s on you.
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Glyptodon 6y ago

HCaptcha makes me do a lot more work to be considered a human, and I end up having to do it more often.

jakearmitage 6y ago

Your privacy pass is useless. You ruined shopping for me and several others on niche e-commerce. So much that the e-commerce owners had to add my IP as a whitelist. I'm glad I buy a lot, otherwise me and them would be screwed. Destroying people's businesses is not nice. That's why no one cares about security, "security engineers" don't test or measure the impact of their strict measures.

jchook 6y ago

Privacy pass (beta) has dubious privacy claims and does not work on (most?) mobile browsers because it requires a browser extension.

whatsmyusername 6y ago

Why would I sign up for something from your service to get around your service? I'll just bounce and use one of your customers competitors.

gatgeagent 6y ago
I just close the tab when I see an reCaptcha checkbox. hCaptcha is fine, I can totally not see what everyones problem is with hCaptcha.

gatgeagent 6y ago

I absolutely love Cloudflares switch from Googles absolute shit of reCaptcha to the new hCaptcha. I still have to fill it out twice, but it takes like < 30 seconds to complete my action and get on with my life. With Googles reCaptcha I always wasted ~10 minutes (this is not an overstatement) and was sometimes still unable to do anything. I'm really grateful for hCaptcha as it somehow simply works.