ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
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ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
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Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#2The actual title of this two year old blog is "Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha"
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#3Funny title as I have privacy concerns when it comes to cloudflare/hCaptcha as well.
What do people use these days as an open source (self hosted) alternative to recaptcha/hCaptcha that is accessible for people with disabilities?
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#4>and hopefully eventually eliminate altogether the number of CAPTCHAs we issue
This suggests that Cloudflare wants to eventually transition to banning "people" with no way to actually access the site in case of a false positive. I don't see the elimination of CAPTCHAs as being a good thing.
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#5Heh, hCaptcha is the only thing I dread and hate more than ReCAPTCHA. It pretty much always triggers and it always wants me to find something very american, like US school busses on images where it's not really clear what they actually expect of me.
These services that use us as free workforce need to go away.
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#6Funny title as I have privacy concerns when it comes to cloudflare/hCaptcha as well. What do people use these days as an open source (self hosted) alternative to recaptcha/hCaptcha that is accessible for people with disabilities?
Seems like FriendlyCaptcha [0] might tick the boxes. Here's the author talking about it [1].
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#7People make good points about hCaptcha being as bad as ReCAPTCHA. Are there any alternatives to captchas? Because captchas seem to be discrimating against people outside of the western world, discriminate against people with disabilities, have lots of privacy concerns, are being used to train google AIs, etc.
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#8People make good points about hCaptcha being as bad as ReCAPTCHA. Are there any alternatives to captchas? Because captchas seem to be discrimating against people outside of the western world, discriminate against people with disabilities, have lots of privacy concerns, are being used to train google AIs, etc.
I commented about FriendlyCaptcha [0] elsethread.
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#9Funny title as I have privacy concerns when it comes to cloudflare/hCaptcha as well. What do people use these days as an open source (self hosted) alternative to recaptcha/hCaptcha that is accessible for people with disabilities?
Seems like FriendlyCaptcha [0] might tick the boxes. Here's the author talking about it [1]. [0]: https://friendlycaptcha.com/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921288
FriendlyCaptcha is not even a captcha. It's just a client side rate limiter.
Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns
#10Heh, hCaptcha is the only thing I dread and hate more than ReCAPTCHA. It pretty much always triggers and it always wants me to find something very american, like US school busses on images where it's not really clear what they actually expect of me. These services that use us as free workforce need to go away.
Every captcha I've encountered thus far has been pretty Americentric, and almost by definition, discriminatory against non-Americans[1].
Doubly so against non-Americans with disabilities.
Captcha makers really need to A/B test their product across a wider global sample of people, before they deploy.
On hcaptcha being worse, for those of us using Tor Browser, hcaptcha is significantly less painful than recaptcha - https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=25227431
[1] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-h...