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The purpose of reCaptcha is to enhance your Google user profile and to deny legitimate users. How does this alternative accomplish those things? This appears t
by immibis 2y ago
The purpose of reCaptcha is to enhance your Google user profile and to deny legitimate users. How does this alternative accomplish those things?
This appears to be a proof-of-work, like Anubis. Real captchas collect much more fingerprinting data to ensure that only users with the latest version of Chrome, the latest version of Windows, and an Nvidia graphics card, can use the site.
- literalAardvark 2y agoYeah, this fails at its most important task, making those filthy, dirty, Firefox users click on bridges for 1 hour a day. On topic though, how does this improve on hCaptcha?
- akimbostrawman 2y agoDon't forget those criminals with non-residential IPs
- Semaphor 2y ago> On topic though, how does this improve on hCaptcha? Cloud vs self-hosted, click annoying things challenge vs automatic proof of work. Or are there other hCaptcha versions and I just never realized it?
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agooh yes. as a firefox (now librewolf) user, it deeply saddens me.
- g-b-r 1y agoI know some people who quickly give up and renounce using the service, when they run into hCaptcha puzzles. I've been bewildered for some time as well, honestly, it took me a while to figure out the first I ran into. And trying one now, fully knowing that I'd have to solve one, I was dumbfounded by the puzzle I've gotten, it took me a few seconds to understand it. Cloudflare's ones are horrible and a plague (although they might have slightly improved recently), but I'm not certain I'd prefer hCaptchas over them.
- Semaphor 2y agoI know this is partially a joke, but I’d like to mention that as a Firefox user with uBo and uMatrix, I almost never have to solve challenges with ReCaptcha.
- hexagonwin 2y agohow? do you just allow all cookies/scripts/xhr on your umatrix? i'm on a similar config and I get captchas far often than any other users on the same network for some reason.
- Semaphor 2y agoI use the uMatrix plugin to automatically allow what’s required for ReCaptcha, that tends to work. I do get the annoying picker sometimes and have an AI extension to solve it for me, but it’s relatively rare, like 1 out of 5 times max (I generally don’t see RC that often). No idea how I’d compare to others on my Network, that’d only be my wife and as a Linux user she’d probably get more than me with Windows ;)
- pabs3 1y agoI thought uMatrix got abandoned?