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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Please stop calling Android Linux. It's a marketing lie that continues to disappoint, including here. You're holding Linux back substantially by claiming Android is part of it. Just because it has Unix doesn't mean it's Linux as MacOS is also Unix.

Unless it was in a previous iteration of the submission's title, I don't see Linux mentioned anywhere.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

#12

Please stop calling Android Linux. It's a marketing lie that continues to disappoint, including here. You're holding Linux back substantially by claiming Android is part of it. Just because it has Unix doesn't mean it's Linux as MacOS is also Unix.

The kernel is a Linux kernel. The userspace is very different from a typical Linux distribution.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops. My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples: - I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all. - Discord immediately b…

Wouldn't a 1£ Linux VM as Wireguard access point suffice?

Nope, I have tried. Just as suspicious to them if not moreso because it's a datacenter IP and not residential. I even have a list of sites I've tried to visit that were explicitly blocked from datacenter IPs, and that file has over a hundred hosts in it now.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops. My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples: - I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all. - Discord immediately b…

whenever I can't access a website for various stupid blocks

I fire up cloudflare warp and walk right through it

use wireguard with wgcf in environments without cloudflare client

yeah it's stupid we have to do this in 2026 but I guess cloudflare is the new AOL garden

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops. My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples: - I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all. - Discord immediately b…

> Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops.

I had this problem recently with the Indeed website. (Cloudflare Captcha)

Thanks to someone on Reddit, it was discovered that anyone using a Chromium based browser (Brave, Vivaldi, etc.) on Linux was being punished.

Awfully frustrating having to set up a Virtual Machine just to be able to access one website via Firefox since even my hardened Firefox was being punished.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops. My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples: - I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all. - Discord immediately b…

Turnstile feels bad as a user. Every site that I’ve seen it long will lock up Safari hard while it’s doing whatever it’s doing. But at least I haven’t run into more than 2 refresh loops.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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post #14

Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops. My ISP regularly changes everyone's IP, and I apparently share an ISP with people who suck, so I get flagged just trying to do all sorts of normal things. Some examples: - I've never bought anything from Etsy but I'm somehow banned from even viewing their site at all. - Discord immediately b…

whenever I can't access a website for various stupid blocks I fire up cloudflare warp and walk right through it use wireguard with wgcf in environments without cloudflare client yeah it's stupid we have to do this in 2026 but I guess cloudflare is the new AOL garden

You sir seem to have solved a problem many people here have.

Would you care to elaborate a little on how you did it?

It doesn't happen that often to me, but sometimes adblock setup I'm using results in such issues.

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