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The end of innocence: HN login now using reCAPTCHA

• trinovantes 4y ago
  I don't see it Are you behind VPN/Tor?
  • password4321 4y ago
    Thanks for taking time to share your experience! I'm using Firefox Focus on Android over cellular internet in the US. IIRC I may have fat fingered an invalid password once. Motivation to grab the auth cookie for future-proofing, I guess.
• mtmail 4y ago
  August 2019 "We turned it on temporarily because HN was under attack by an account-stealing botnet. Obviously we don't leave it on any longer than we have to. We also are happy to put anyone's username on a whitelist, as the people who emailed us found out." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783482
  • eimrine 4y ago
    Why anybody might need to still HN accounts?