Yesterday I noticed CloudFlare uses it so maybe that is the reason for 15 percent of the internet.
hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
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#342I personally found hCaptcha harder to pass than reCaptcha, to the point where I will leave a site that demands one if that's a realistic option (e.g. not really an option if it's my bank, totally an option if it's one of many stores selling an item). It's possible that I just got unlucky (one of my recent experiences was a site that didn't let me in even after solving it, which really soured me), but I feel like the…
I largely agree. Cloudflare requires hcaptcha if you mistype your password a single time when accessing their dashboard. The UX of hcaptcha is not good, especially in a flow where I'm already fixed on goal (doing something in my dashboard). If I need to stop thinking about dns settings or caching to pick out photos with bicycles, that's a really expensive context switch for my brain. And in my experience, you need to…
You're probably leaking lots of data to Google. Browse the Web with strong privacy protection (temporary container addon in firefox, ublock, privacy badger, decentralize...) and you'll see that recaptcha UX is just worse (slowly loading new pieces to identify after you solve them, one after the other). I can't count the number of stairs, hills, fire hydrants, cars, trucks, bicycles, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings... I had to point out just this month.
Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
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#344I don't understand why anyone likes hCaptcha. With reCaptcha, I rarely got more than the checkbox. Now I get a series of puzzles every time I want to look at a web page. When that happens, I'm just closing out, and going to a better website.
We need more auto-solver services. Pay a subscription and let developing country workers solve captchas for us. Extra expense on top of internet connectivity plan.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve. I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in o…
I sent a email to my representative, which got my automatically added to her newsletter. But the unsubscribe link doesn't work without solving one...
Where? That would not be legal in many countries and I suggest you try reporting it.
Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve. I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in o…
Can you provide an alternative that doesn’t involve my contact form getting spammed to hell with crap?
I have my email address listed in plain text on my website and with a simple regular expression to to reject the standard pharma/bitcount/etc. spams at the SMTP level based on subject there is at most a couple of spam emails pair day. Hardly takes any time to go through that.
Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
#347"hCaptcha now ruins fifteen percent of the internet"
I loathe captchas, especially Googles who seems to punish my use of privacy extensions (ie ublock origin, Ghostery Lite).
Captcha is a ok tool when you have valid reasons to assume the user is a bot (multiple failed logins, unusual traffic, password resets etc.). Used as a default it only antagonizes users.
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#348Accessibility - I am surprised nobody mentioned it.
We looked at hCaptcha, and the feedback we got was that their approach to accessibility is simply unacceptable.
If you can't solve the challenges, you have to sign up on their website, in advance, and provide them with your email address.
https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility
We just couldn't justify that sort of privacy imposition.
Personally, I think all Captcha needs to go.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better way? I'd be hard pushed to come up with a worse way. The number of things that are "wrong" with reCatcha etc, have been mentioned on here ad nauseam . In fact, I'll quote myself from another debate on the subject, a while back: >1: It's never made clear exactly what you're supposed to click on. For example. If I'm told to click on "traffic lights" does that mean just the lights?... or the poles as well?... and…
So in other words you have no better ideas either?
I have lots of better ideas.
Re: hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
#350I dislike the widespread use of captcha regardless of provider. I realize anything connected to the internet will be subject to automated abuse, and it's impossible to run some types of services without taking some steps to defend against it, but it seems to me there's usually a way to handle that without invading the user's privacy or wasting their time. The exact details will vary based on the type of service, of c…
>One particularly egregious misuse of captcha in a service I use presents one after I enter a correct username and password Is it eBay by any chance? That recently started randomly showing reCaptchas to me when I'm already logged in and have been using the site for some time. When this happens, it descends into a never-ending cycle of more login screens and then more reCaptchas. But thankfully eBay have taken note of…
>eBay
>I'm not a violent person at all. But if I ever meet the person who spawned reCaptcha and all its equally annoying clones, which are a pox on the internet, I won't be responsible for my own actions.
be careful, else they start sending you dead horses head and planting gpses in your cars https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executive...