5 ms·

May 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

May 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 ago
Are 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 ago
  I 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
uBlock with all third party requests blocked. That means I don't even see recaptcha, but when I explicitly enable it for a site, it takes 3-4 rounds to pass. Logged on to gmail and youtube.
- mikro2nd 6y ago
  My strategy for this has been to switch to a different browser (Brave, simply because it's Chrome-ish and runs on Linux). Since the reCaptcha network has seen this browser before I'm seldom abused with more than one or two rounds of image guessing. OTOH when I see reCaptcha-wanted websites I'm mostly inclined to just bounce. There has to be a really compelling use-case to propel me to go to all the bother.
FridgeSeal 6y ago
On desktop: * NextDNS for DNS over Http (Mac vpn application) * Firefox + uBlock (Matrix version) * google + fb accounts live in container tabs On mobile: * NextDNS (same app vpn setup on iOS) with aggressive blocks enabled * Safari content blocker for anything that gets missed. Every time I get a recaptcha, it invariably turns into a multi-round affair.
AniseAbyss 6y ago
Start playing around with these https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_about_config_privacy_tweeks https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_... Privacy comes with a price.

May 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 ago

Are 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 ago
I 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

uBlock with all third party requests blocked. That means I don't even see recaptcha, but when I explicitly enable it for a site, it takes 3-4 rounds to pass. Logged on to gmail and youtube.

mikro2nd 6y ago
My strategy for this has been to switch to a different browser (Brave, simply because it's Chrome-ish and runs on Linux). Since the reCaptcha network has seen this browser before I'm seldom abused with more than one or two rounds of image guessing. OTOH when I see reCaptcha-wanted websites I'm mostly inclined to just bounce. There has to be a really compelling use-case to propel me to go to all the bother.

FridgeSeal 6y ago

On desktop: * NextDNS for DNS over Http (Mac vpn application) * Firefox + uBlock (Matrix version) * google + fb accounts live in container tabs On mobile: * NextDNS (same app vpn setup on iOS) with aggressive blocks enabled * Safari content blocker for anything that gets missed. Every time I get a recaptcha, it invariably turns into a multi-round affair.

AniseAbyss 6y ago

Start playing around with these https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_about_config_privacy_tweeks https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_... Privacy comes with a price.