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As someone that hasn't had to use any captcha services, does an alternate like hCaptcha not have feature parity with reCaptcha?

ve55 6y ago
On the surface it does, but many more users will have to complete the captcha, since they cannot judge your 'humanness' by your Google cookies+account. Although I like services like hCaptcha a lot more myself, it may be possible that this notably bothers users and decreases conversion rates.
- feanaro 6y ago
  I don't have a Google account, I fanatically block Google's tracking and I still usually don't see captchas. For this reason, I don't think this holds.
  - seniorivn 6y ago
    depends on where do you live
  - intellirogue 6y ago
    On the other hand I do have a Google account but block tracking, and I have to do about 6 rounds of reCAPTCHA every time. So either you're in a country that Google has decided is "good" (i'm in Germany), or you're not blocking Google's tracking as well as you think.
    - feanaro 6y ago
      That's interesting. Without disclosing my location, let's just say I'm in a much less powerful (and hence, I would imagine, less reputable) country than Germany. I doubt it is in the "good" set, but who knows. I also doubt I'm not blocking it well enough. I'm running Firefox with CanvasBlocker, uBlock Origin (with strict rulesets) and uMatrix. I also turn on restrictFingerprinting.
  - BlueTemplar 6y ago
    How do you manage ? These days it seems like almost every website where you have to make an account requires reCAPTCHA... (I'm using uMatrix too, but this doesn't solve the issue that if I don't allow reCAPTCHA, I'm stuck on the first step of account creation…)
daveoc64 6y ago
Its approach to accessibility is terrible. https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/signup?type=accessibility https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/signup?type=accessibility As a user that can't answer the challenges, you have to register with hCaptcha in advance of using the website you want to. This lets you bypass the verification checks for a while. The discoverability of this is poor
- lrvick 6y ago
  And throws privacy out the window.
miyuru 6y ago
hCaptcha does not have IPv6 support. It breaks the web, when trying IPv6 only.
whatsmyusername 6y ago
Sooooo hcaptcha is way more aggressive. Like when it first went into cloudflare it made browsing the web miserable. They've since seemed to put a lot of work into it. To the point where I don't notice it anymore. They're iterating, and that's what I want to see.

ve55 6y ago

On the surface it does, but many more users will have to complete the captcha, since they cannot judge your 'humanness' by your Google cookies+account. Although I like services like hCaptcha a lot more myself, it may be possible that this notably bothers users and decreases conversion rates.

feanaro 6y ago
I don't have a Google account, I fanatically block Google's tracking and I still usually don't see captchas. For this reason, I don't think this holds.
- seniorivn 6y ago
  depends on where do you live
- intellirogue 6y ago
  On the other hand I do have a Google account but block tracking, and I have to do about 6 rounds of reCAPTCHA every time. So either you're in a country that Google has decided is "good" (i'm in Germany), or you're not blocking Google's tracking as well as you think.
  - feanaro 6y ago
    That's interesting. Without disclosing my location, let's just say I'm in a much less powerful (and hence, I would imagine, less reputable) country than Germany. I doubt it is in the "good" set, but who knows. I also doubt I'm not blocking it well enough. I'm running Firefox with CanvasBlocker, uBlock Origin (with strict rulesets) and uMatrix. I also turn on restrictFingerprinting.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  How do you manage ? These days it seems like almost every website where you have to make an account requires reCAPTCHA... (I'm using uMatrix too, but this doesn't solve the issue that if I don't allow reCAPTCHA, I'm stuck on the first step of account creation…)

daveoc64 6y ago

Its approach to accessibility is terrible. https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/signup?type=accessibility https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/signup?type=accessibility As a user that can't answer the challenges, you have to register with hCaptcha in advance of using the website you want to. This lets you bypass the verification checks for a while. The discoverability of this is poor

lrvick 6y ago
And throws privacy out the window.

miyuru 6y ago

hCaptcha does not have IPv6 support. It breaks the web, when trying IPv6 only.

whatsmyusername 6y ago

Sooooo hcaptcha is way more aggressive. Like when it first went into cloudflare it made browsing the web miserable. They've since seemed to put a lot of work into it. To the point where I don't notice it anymore. They're iterating, and that's what I want to see.