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> with the drug-dealer business model Except there's another dealer selling at the old price and a third one giving even more away for free. hCaptcha is a pret
by gs17 3y ago
> with the drug-dealer business model
Except there's another dealer selling at the old price and a third one giving even more away for free. hCaptcha is a pretty easy switch, and Turnstile has a reCAPTCHA compatibility mode.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoFirebase Auth is pretty common and widely used. Any sort of phone number auth, like SMS second factor, requires reCAPTCHA. (And people can complain about how much SMS 2FA is bad, and I don't really disagree, but it is still pretty much a "lowest common denominator" method and many, many web users can't easily use TOTP or hardware keys). Switching out Firebase Auth is a much, much more difficult deal than just switching out reCAPTCHA.
- hot_gril 3y agoFirebase is Google, so this is to be expected. Maybe they don't charge for those captchas though?