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hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by modzu »

blindm wrote: post #11

I think it's great. So many sites sit behind Cloudflare now and Cloudflare now uses hCaptcha, which is a big win. And the hCaptchas themselves are easy to complete. No more wondering if you actually clicked on 'all' the traffic lights anymore, yay! I inspected the source code of Google's reCaptcha offering and was disgusted at how many bits of information they were collecting. They also seem to be fingerprinting user…

well the slight improvement in usability is a win, but is it really any more anonymous than recaptcha?

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by dheera »

dsabanin wrote: post #43
dheera wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reCaptcha has also gotten increasingly annoying lately. I forgot my password to one site and tried about 2 or 3 different passwords and in-between each it asked me to do about 7 or 8 of those labelling exercises. I finally just gave up and left the site. Not only that, but the labelling exercises weren't clear. It wanted me to label a "公交車" which means more like a public city bus and there were also school buses whic…

Recently Google's captcha asked me to mark all the traffic meters on the photos, and amongst the choices was a photo of a mailbox. It didn't let me through until I marked it as a meter as well. Good luck to whatever self driving car they are training using this data.

Maybe would be kind of fun if we, the users, could form a coalition to deliberately mislabel photos on captures on a mass scale.

It just seems there lacks a way to make it happen beyond the hacker community.

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by frakkingcylons »

blindm wrote: post #11

I think it's great. So many sites sit behind Cloudflare now and Cloudflare now uses hCaptcha, which is a big win. And the hCaptchas themselves are easy to complete. No more wondering if you actually clicked on 'all' the traffic lights anymore, yay! I inspected the source code of Google's reCaptcha offering and was disgusted at how many bits of information they were collecting. They also seem to be fingerprinting user…

I’m not particularly fond of reCaptcha either but I disagree that it’s an obviously good thing for someone to be able to repeatedly make new accounts with no restrictions. Abusive users use this to bypass account bans.

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by ldjb »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #52
blindm wrote: post #11

I think it's great. So many sites sit behind Cloudflare now and Cloudflare now uses hCaptcha, which is a big win. And the hCaptchas themselves are easy to complete. No more wondering if you actually clicked on 'all' the traffic lights anymore, yay! I inspected the source code of Google's reCaptcha offering and was disgusted at how many bits of information they were collecting. They also seem to be fingerprinting user…

I've had hCaptcha recheck me repeatedly and fail to work at all on VPN. I much prefer ebay's simple slide the puzzle piece method.

That's annoying. Have you tried using their accessibility feature?

https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by fab1an »

innocenat wrote: post #14
alexnewman wrote: post #2

Curious what people think about hCaptcha?

For me I find hCaptcha harder and more ambiguous than what I have experienced with reCaptcha. The ambiguity might be because my phone is set to Japanese. I got asked to identify 電車 (Densha, electric train), but there were also images of diesel train. Is it translation error, or is it really asking me to identify electric train? (The correct term for train in general in Japanese is 列車 ressha)

Great catch. If you'd like, you can actually submit a better translation via a pr here: https://github.com/hCaptcha/hcaptcha-i18n

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by sroussey »

dsabanin wrote: post #43
dheera wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reCaptcha has also gotten increasingly annoying lately. I forgot my password to one site and tried about 2 or 3 different passwords and in-between each it asked me to do about 7 or 8 of those labelling exercises. I finally just gave up and left the site. Not only that, but the labelling exercises weren't clear. It wanted me to label a "公交車" which means more like a public city bus and there were also school buses whic…

Recently Google's captcha asked me to mark all the traffic meters on the photos, and amongst the choices was a photo of a mailbox. It didn't let me through until I marked it as a meter as well. Good luck to whatever self driving car they are training using this data.

That literally happened to me 5min ago!

Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

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Post by skellera »

shakna wrote: post #80
gaieges wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google's reCaptcha code seemed to be very keen on knowing my 'cadence' or the way I used my mouse and how quickly (or how slow) I completed the captcha. It also looked at things like timezone, screen resolution, battery charge level etc So they could determine if it was 'you' who was using the captcha, soon after, in a separate session (even on a different device!) I'd bet a good amount that they store that along w…

> which is basically why after a single reCAPTCHA solve, you wont see them prompt you again for ages - they know who you are. If only. If the same site has reCaptcha across more than one page, within mere minutes of having to slog through multiple screens of one, I can guarantee I'll be doing it again. And I'm never sure if Google has served me either a very long sequence of reCaptchas, or whether they've decided I'm…

Being on a VPN, have blockers on, or not logged into google are a few things that will increase the captchas you’ll see.
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