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The real question is why would a service like recaptcha need the ip of the user to operate?
by whiplash451 3y ago
The real question is why would a service like recaptcha need the ip of the user to operate?
- jonas-w 3y agoIP reputation/blocking. Often datacenters have a bad IP reputation and if you access a site with a captcha from a datacenter IP, you will often get more/harder/slower captchas to solve. Some IPs are completely restricted from accessing sites which have captchas, if they are known to be used for spamming.
- butlerm 3y agoEmbedded references to external javascript libraries, fonts, images, and so on on a web page are resolved by the browser by making a connection to the service that hosts the resource, and connections over the Internet necessarily involve two IP addresses of some sort, the IP address of the requester (or a requester) and the IP address of the responder. Every web browser works that way by default. There are two basic choices to avoid that - in some cases you can just host the resources yourself so the client browser does not connect to hosts operated by others, or you can operate a proxy so that the client browsers requests are relayed and anonymized before going to a third party.