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ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns

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Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns

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Heh, 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 - htt…

hCaptcha is in fact tested this way, and has pretty consistent accuracy across hundreds of countries:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/post/do-captchas-really-discriminat...

(disclosure: work there)

Re: ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns

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Funny 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?

hCaptcha really doesn't care who you are, and has no incentive to do so. Pretty different economic model than an ad seller like Google.

People who build their own generally end up switching to a service like hCaptcha once they start getting attacked. Not a simple problem, as any solution you put in place needs to constantly evolve if you are protecting anything of value.

(disclosure: work there)

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