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Although it seems to go against the spirit of Protonmail and its ethos I'm not exactly sure there are many good options, hcaptcha is the lesser of two evils and
by aboringusername 5y ago
Although it seems to go against the spirit of Protonmail and its ethos I'm not exactly sure there are many good options, hcaptcha is the lesser of two evils and a fundamental requirement on the modern web.
Even HN requires a recaptcha if you fail too many times (and it's also based on IP).
If you want to blame anyone blame:
1: The bad actors spamming logins
2: Google for essentially monopolizing captcha
hcaptcha proves there's a market/demand for alternatives, this is HN, if you dislike it, go build a better alternative than Google's and I am sure PM will be only too pleased to switch.
Complaining is easy, actually changing something is more difficult.
(P.S I challenge anyone to deploy a system used by tens of thousands and not have any abuse/rate limiting systems, you'll soon be turning to captcha's at some point)
- nxpnsv 5y agoSeems there on the case already... https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1398657423913668614 https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1398657423913668614
- MattGaiser 5y agoI built a system that had all of a 100 or so users before some abuser came along. Limiting web abuse is a huge problem that requires solutions.
- disqard 5y agoWould you be able to share what your solution looked like? Thanks in advance!
- MattGaiser 5y agoWe just installed reCAPTCHA and blocked Tor IPs. Nothing that special.
- nemothekid 5y agoI wouldn't say Google is monopolizing captcha, its that captcha is hard and you essentially need to come up some expensive problem that is hard for computers but easy for humans. Personally, I hate hCaptcha more than recaptcha, Craigslist uses it for their contact forms and I hate. hCaptcha is much more difficult and tedious than recaptcha.