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Sounds like something I still will expect my privacy-respecting browser to block in its entirety. It's not meant to benefit me, it's designed to prevent "ad fra
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Sounds like something I still will expect my privacy-respecting browser to block in its entirety. It's not meant to benefit me, it's designed to prevent "ad fraud".
- anoncareer0212 6y agoChoosing to be militantly ignorant in service of dogma over math has consequences all the time, not just when you're the Feds trying to get 'child porn' laws passed to make Apple break encryption.
- foota 6y agoWhat?
- gruez 6y ago>Sounds like something I still will expect my privacy-respecting browser to block in its entirety prepared to get penalized by recaptcha for not having it enabled.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoYeah, I strongly suspect this will be the result on a much scale than the edge cases we see today. We need to start punishing companies using reCaptcha. Stop doing business with them.
- cpeterso 6y agoWhat is a good alternative to reCaptcha that sites should use instead?
- Semaphor 6y agoI’ve been seeing hCaptcha more often ever since the Cloudflare announcement. Unlike with ReCaptcha, it doesn’t send me into an infinite loop.
- kemonocode 6y agohCaptcha is an alternative I have seen popping up as of late. (I am completely unaffiliated with them, and I can't really even verify whether or not hCaptcha is any good, although it did seem like it was rather decent to me and no more difficult not easier than the average reCAPTCHA)
- FridgeSeal 6y agoSo nothing will change then? ReCaptcha already appears to have some grudge against me, presumably by virtue of running Firefox and comprehensive ad-blocking, so blocking yet another google thing isn't going to make my life substantially worse.
- millstone 6y agoGoogle already penalizes non-Chrome users by showing them more ads, in particular ads for Chrome. The choice becomes more stark by the day.
- hetspookjee 6y agoMay I ask what kind of setup you're running with Firefox? I'm having Firefox on a MBP with only uBlock but I rarely get any recaptcha. Am I mistaken in thinking I'm securing my privacy?
- mcintyre1994 6y agoAre you logged into Google? Not on Firefox itself, just in one of their properties. I have the same setup and don’t get recaptcha either, I think it’s probably because I’m either logged into my personal long-standing gmail or my work g suite account. My guess is if I used the container stuff to isolate Google like I do Facebook then it would start triggering it. I do get recaptcha all the time in Safari on iOS despite being logged into Google there too, not sure what that’s about.
- WorldMaker 6y agoI only login to Google in a dedicated Firefox Container, and yes I'm getting really sick of ReCaptcha. It's amazingly user hostile at this point, and I suppose that it doesn't help that I need two or three attempts at this point to "pass" its challenges, because its machine learning algorithm and I disagree on what constitutes a "street sign" or something dumb like that. It's making me want to avoid websites that use ReCaptcha challenges altogether.
- aib 6y ago
- Xelbair 6y agoCaptcha is alrealy horrible for me because i do not use chrome, and have ublock and few other privacy addons.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoPrepare for a lot of Captcha challenges for daring to opt out of their invasive tracking graph.
- ehsankia 6y agoHow else do you propose sites combat spam and bots? As someone who has had many of my free services completely ruined by spammers, Captcha was the only way I could save them.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI've found Captcha is an overkill strategy that also demonstrates poor customer service as you are both annoying your user and selling their data to Google. Often site-specific form validation is more than adequate to prevent bot registrations. Until you hit the level of "people are scripting for your site specifically" level, rudimentary data validation will catch almost every bot.
- ehsankia 6y ago> customer service Well honestly, "1-person hobby project" doesn't really have "customer service". Though I work hard to help anyone with honest feature requests and issues, there's still no SLO on any of this. I have unfortunately hit people scripting for my site directly, which is where I had to rely on Captcha. It's unfortunate but bad actors have honestly ruined so much of the internet...