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Consider hCaptcha - it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality, but much more privacy-friendly and more affordable at scale. Also, it lets anyone la

by fab1an 6y ago

Consider hCaptcha - it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality, but much more privacy-friendly and more affordable at scale. Also, it lets anyone label their data on it, not just Google. Full disclosure, I work with their excellent team.

milankragujevic 6y ago
Just wanted to thank you for mentioninf hCaptcha. I had tried it some time before but IIRC it was either invite-only or enterprise-only or had some "size" requirements. Just saw that it's available for all. Thank you!
lrvick 6y ago
Cloudflare/hcaptcha are the bane of my existence. Privacypass itself is a privacy violation and not available on most browsers and I don't want to spend an half hour a day doing free labor training someone else's AI to just use the internet anonymously.
- gruez 6y ago
  Privacypass itself is a privacy violation and not available on most browsers what? https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001992652-Using-Privacy-Pass-with-Cloudflare https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265... It has addons for firefox and chrome, which makes up 90+% (by market share) of the browsers out there.
  - hundchenkatze 6y ago
    It's still a privacy violation. This add-on needs to: Access browser tabs Access browser activity during navigation Access your data for all websites
- whatsmyusername 6y ago
  Cloudflare was a blessing for us. It's an incredible service for the price. Business tier (we needed custom certs) + advanced ssl is like $220/month and you get a WAF, a world class cdn, and DDOS protection.
zepearl 6y ago
Thank you! (it's this one https://www.hcaptcha.com https://www.hcaptcha.com , right? ) I was thinking about looking for recaptcha alternatives since October and until now I wasn't aware of hcaptcha.
spyder 6y ago
Uh... please no, it requires double the clicks/time to solve it. I just tried it: reCaptcha 5 clicks, hCaptcha 10-12 clicks
- lights0123 6y ago
  although, installing Privacy Pass allows you to bypass 5 hCaptcha prompts for every one you solve.
GoblinSlayer 6y ago
FWIW recatcha had or still has noscript mode.
kasabali 6y ago
> it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality If by superset you mean it's as anyone as ReCaptcha plus 10 times more, I concur. Recaptcha is annoying but at least it gives me a relief short a while after solving it. hCaptcha is dumb as rock and challenges me every 10 minutes even when browsing the same fucking website.

by fab1an 6y ago

milankragujevic 6y ago

Just wanted to thank you for mentioninf hCaptcha. I had tried it some time before but IIRC it was either invite-only or enterprise-only or had some "size" requirements. Just saw that it's available for all. Thank you!

lrvick 6y ago

Cloudflare/hcaptcha are the bane of my existence. Privacypass itself is a privacy violation and not available on most browsers and I don't want to spend an half hour a day doing free labor training someone else's AI to just use the internet anonymously.

gruez 6y ago
Privacypass itself is a privacy violation and not available on most browsers what? https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001992652-Using-Privacy-Pass-with-Cloudflare https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265... It has addons for firefox and chrome, which makes up 90+% (by market share) of the browsers out there.
- hundchenkatze 6y ago
  It's still a privacy violation. This add-on needs to: Access browser tabs Access browser activity during navigation Access your data for all websites
whatsmyusername 6y ago
Cloudflare was a blessing for us. It's an incredible service for the price. Business tier (we needed custom certs) + advanced ssl is like $220/month and you get a WAF, a world class cdn, and DDOS protection.

zepearl 6y ago

Thank you! (it's this one https://www.hcaptcha.com https://www.hcaptcha.com , right? ) I was thinking about looking for recaptcha alternatives since October and until now I wasn't aware of hcaptcha.

spyder 6y ago

Uh... please no, it requires double the clicks/time to solve it. I just tried it: reCaptcha 5 clicks, hCaptcha 10-12 clicks

lights0123 6y ago
although, installing Privacy Pass allows you to bypass 5 hCaptcha prompts for every one you solve.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago

FWIW recatcha had or still has noscript mode.

kasabali 6y ago

> it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality If by superset you mean it's as anyone as ReCaptcha plus 10 times more, I concur. Recaptcha is annoying but at least it gives me a relief short a while after solving it. hCaptcha is dumb as rock and challenges me every 10 minutes even when browsing the same fucking website.