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Google captcha works by uniquely identifying you. The easier Google can track you the easier your captcha. That's why it's nearly impossible to solve captcha wi

Google captcha works by uniquely identifying you. The easier Google can track you the easier your captcha. That's why it's nearly impossible to solve captcha with resistfingerprint on (ie tor mode)

mderazon 6y ago
Wow didn't know that. Do you have a source? How do they decide which captcha is harder ?
- squarefoot 6y ago
  The parent used wrong phrasing but it's real. The captchas don't become harder to solve but longer. If Google detects you're blocking trackers (or possibly cookies) it will throw at you an huge number of captchas until you give up. Imagine having to click like 12 panels of street lights, cars, bicycles, trucks, buses, etc. sometimes multiple times. This is getting out of control, really. I miss so much the Web 1.0 from 1999.
  - alskdj21 6y ago
    What I do on captchas is to hit the skip button until it would prompt you to verify. You can try if this could help. Captchas should be tone down to something bareable. I even got to a point that I'll drop the site because of this.
  - asddubs 6y ago
    the worst part is when cloudflare puts you on their shitlist and you have to fill out these dumb captchas for 6 minutes before you can even access just about half of the sites on the internet
  - mderazon 6y ago
    It's really sad the situation we have come to. I think that only two things can defeat this madness 1. Legislation 2. Breaking captcha to the point it's not effective anymore
- bradly 6y ago
  I use Firefox with all the privacy stuff turned on. I have to do multiple, difficult recaptchas all day. I've even missed out on Yosemite campsite reservations because of the delay from all the captchas presented to me when trying to book :(
Attained 6y ago
That seems illegal in some places if true. The premise is that it proves we are not robots, and that's all.
- codetrotter 6y ago
  By tracking you, they can remember that you are not a robot. As much as I dislike tracking, I don’t think having the captcha be always hard would be all that great either. Ideally I’d like to see fewer captchas. But there’s no good alternative to it really. I mean, requiring phone verification instead is an alternative. But I don’t necessarily want to hand out my phone number to each and every site on the net that I interact with either.
  - throwaway2048 6y ago
    Its absolutely not true that there is no alternative to tracking for captcha "hardness". https://privacypass.github.io/ https://privacypass.github.io/
  - sroussey 6y ago
    You can prove trust once and get several tokens to spend later. There are various people looking at this like Cloudflare and Google.

Google captcha works by uniquely identifying you. The easier Google can track you the easier your captcha. That's why it's nearly impossible to solve captcha with resistfingerprint on (ie tor mode)

mderazon 6y ago

Wow didn't know that. Do you have a source? How do they decide which captcha is harder ?

squarefoot 6y ago
The parent used wrong phrasing but it's real. The captchas don't become harder to solve but longer. If Google detects you're blocking trackers (or possibly cookies) it will throw at you an huge number of captchas until you give up. Imagine having to click like 12 panels of street lights, cars, bicycles, trucks, buses, etc. sometimes multiple times. This is getting out of control, really. I miss so much the Web 1.0 from 1999.
- alskdj21 6y ago
  What I do on captchas is to hit the skip button until it would prompt you to verify. You can try if this could help. Captchas should be tone down to something bareable. I even got to a point that I'll drop the site because of this.
- asddubs 6y ago
  the worst part is when cloudflare puts you on their shitlist and you have to fill out these dumb captchas for 6 minutes before you can even access just about half of the sites on the internet
- mderazon 6y ago
  It's really sad the situation we have come to. I think that only two things can defeat this madness 1. Legislation 2. Breaking captcha to the point it's not effective anymore
bradly 6y ago
I use Firefox with all the privacy stuff turned on. I have to do multiple, difficult recaptchas all day. I've even missed out on Yosemite campsite reservations because of the delay from all the captchas presented to me when trying to book :(

Attained 6y ago

That seems illegal in some places if true. The premise is that it proves we are not robots, and that's all.

codetrotter 6y ago
By tracking you, they can remember that you are not a robot. As much as I dislike tracking, I don’t think having the captcha be always hard would be all that great either. Ideally I’d like to see fewer captchas. But there’s no good alternative to it really. I mean, requiring phone verification instead is an alternative. But I don’t necessarily want to hand out my phone number to each and every site on the net that I interact with either.
- throwaway2048 6y ago
  Its absolutely not true that there is no alternative to tracking for captcha "hardness". https://privacypass.github.io/ https://privacypass.github.io/
- sroussey 6y ago
  You can prove trust once and get several tokens to spend later. There are various people looking at this like Cloudflare and Google.