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Captchas, at least recaptcha which is the main image selection one, exist to enforce Google's browser monopoly and force tracking on you. You're not proving you
by andy99 2y ago
Captchas, at least recaptcha which is the main image selection one, exist to enforce Google's browser monopoly and force tracking on you. You're not proving you're a human, you're being punished for not behaving how google wants. It's vile.
- basilgohar 2y agoThis is a little known fact and proper characterization of reCaptcha that I wish I could draw even more attention to.
- nulld3v 2y agoI dunno, I frequently do recaptchas on Firefox on Linux and it hasn't been a problem for me? It does feel like they make me do the image selection more often, but I've never had any problems completing the captchas and it doesn't happen often enough to bother me.
- LtWorf 2y agoYou like wasting time working for free for google?
- nulld3v 2y agoWell no, but I also understand why captchas are kinda necessary.
- LtWorf 2y agoBecause google wants us to work for free? Because they want to punish those who dare to use firefox without changing the user agent?
- nulld3v 2y agoPossible, but I think the more likely explanation is that Firefox users are just higher risk. I don't think the slightly increasesed rare of captchas is going to drive people off of Firefox.
- LtWorf 2y agoDo you really think hackers don't know about the User-Agent header?
- nulld3v 2y agoNo, but in whatever little bot/scraper blocking work I did, user-agent blocking was an incredibly powerful low-hanging fruit. For sensitive material, we would often insta-ban anyone who hit us with a 'curl' user-agent and that definitely killed a lot of script-kiddies' dreams right then and there. Obviously, if you are a determined "hacker" you would get past that and hit the honeypots but simple filters could filter out enough scrapers such that the rest of the attacks could be manually evaluated by humans.
- LtWorf 2y agoIt feels very strange to me that someone can honestly believe that google isn't pulling shenanigans.
- fragmede 2y agoI don't think that's an accurate characterization because the difficulty of the recaptcha is based upon the property its protecting. If it was just about behaving how google wants, then someone who behaved how Google wants shouldn't get tested harder on sketchier sites.