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There are a lot of sites that are totally unusable on Firefox regardless how much you use ff. I do all my mobile browsing on FF yet when I try to use some websites I always get this Recaptcha failed error(1) while it works flawlessly on chrome though I never use it often. Try it, maybe it will happen for you too. Same happens on most sites which show you that "checking your browser" page via cloudflare too. The web i…
I guess another question is why we really need captchas. What are we trying to protect against that can't be accomplished with rate limits, voting systems, or other ways to regulate meaningful use of a website? Ultimately why does it matter if the user is a human or bot, as long as they are being a valuable user? What's wrong if a bot buys some of your inventory, pays for it and everything? What's wrong if an NLP bot…
As a security consultant, it is not uncommon to recommend a CAPTCHA for things like successive, three failed login attempts from a single IP address within a certain time period. But I do agree that CAPTCHAs are used too frequently, and some security people recommend them for just about everything. As someone who blocks a lot of tracking and feels the pain of these tracking monsters (that's what CAPTCHAs are these days, more than the Completely Automatic Public Turing test they're supposed to be), I always think very carefully whether a CAPTCHA is the only option, and I'm sure to recommend CAPTCHAs that fit the situation but are less invasive than a third-party one.
Edit: oh, right, credit cards are common in many countries and banks set chargeback limits. It's still crazy to me that your 'public key' is also the only thing needed to withdraw money from your account, thereby necessitating a chargeback system. I guess for credit cards a CAPTCHA might be useful too.
I hate the v3 reCAPTCHA. On FF, I usually KNOW I am answering correctly and it says I failed. I always have to go through it multiple times. It's maddening. It often leaves me second guessing myself... is that sliver of car counted? is a crossing signal a street light? What about those streetlights way off in the distance, do I select those two in addition to the ones front and center? That RV looks sort of like a bu…
So this is probably a bit off topic, but why don't more site owners just create their own unique anti-spam system? In my opinion, if they were simpler, yet all unique, there would be less bots that could mass spam and privacy would be improved. Even something as simple as a question: "How many legs does a spider have?" ____ And then cycle through different types of free form questions of things that most people shoul…
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I disagree. Adding Google's captcha is a 15 minute exercise. If i remember correctly, you copy/paste a snippet then add a callback in your own code. Whereas rolling your own captcha implementation would take much longer and be worse.
And it is this very convenience that has countless sites using it. As I said, there are other systems which are just as easy to implement as Google's and which are not overkill and also more privacy friendly (Google's CAPTCHA is known to fingerprint the user using heuristics like mouse movements, screen resolution, etc).
Like what?
There are government services, such as the USPTO, that rely on Google reCAPTCHA. The new reCAPTCHA has made it difficult for me to access documents, and sometimes they think that I'm a bot and thus deny me access entirely. Does the government realize the consequences of this? Both that it pushes users to use Chromium-based browsers, and that they're helping to solidify a company that already has a near monopoly in th…
I hate the v3 reCAPTCHA. On FF, I usually KNOW I am answering correctly and it says I failed. I always have to go through it multiple times. It's maddening. It often leaves me second guessing myself... is that sliver of car counted? is a crossing signal a street light? What about those streetlights way off in the distance, do I select those two in addition to the ones front and center? That RV looks sort of like a bu…
They want all tiles with bicycles... but are showing me a road painted bicycle crossing pictogram...
You can view your reCaptcha V3 score here: https://recaptcha-demo.appspot.com/recaptcha-v3-request-scor... I get .7 on my iPhone, I’m guessing that my liberal use of Firefox containers and the cookie auto-delete extension on my desktop will give me a much lower score and cause me to have to jump through extra hoops at websites that implement it, just like the reCaptcha V2 does. Edit: I also got 0.7 on Firefox with st…
I guess this is a 0 for me then
You can view your reCaptcha V3 score here: https://recaptcha-demo.appspot.com/recaptcha-v3-request-scor... I get .7 on my iPhone, I’m guessing that my liberal use of Firefox containers and the cookie auto-delete extension on my desktop will give me a much lower score and cause me to have to jump through extra hoops at websites that implement it, just like the reCaptcha V2 does. Edit: I also got 0.7 on Firefox with st…
With Firefox fingerprint resisting turned on and with Ublock Origin/UMatrix, I get a score of 0.1. And I'm not even on a VPN; I'm sure on my home network I'd have an even lower score. To me, it feels like Google's entire strategy behind reCaptcha is to make it harder to protect your privacy. We've basically given up on the idea that there are tasks only humans can do, and to me V3 feels like Google openly saying, "Yo…
There goes your "minor inconvenience for most users"...