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Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

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Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#31

The slow animation is the worst. You really want to punch someone responsible in the face. And I never figure out how to solve the traffic light riddle.

Yes, it's the most obvious internet rage trigger.

But I can't figure out why they make a 'delay'? Why not just show the next dam image?

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#33
post #27

FYI. Title is misleading. This experience has nothing to do Firefox vs Chrome. Result is because of 3rd party cookie and tracker blocking. I had same and even worse (I was not able to get through captcha) experience on chrome itself because I have 3rd party cookies disabled and couple privacy oriented extensions running.

The user is complaining about the slow CSS animations. It's definitely a bug though not something they did on purpose. I remember having the same issue on Chrome as well.

IIRC, it is something they do on purpose, to make it clear to the user something is happening while rate-limiting challenges given to the user.

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#35
post #27

FYI. Title is misleading. This experience has nothing to do Firefox vs Chrome. Result is because of 3rd party cookie and tracker blocking. I had same and even worse (I was not able to get through captcha) experience on chrome itself because I have 3rd party cookies disabled and couple privacy oriented extensions running.

But I never touch cookies in FF and never install any privacy features. I have been facing the same for years.

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#36
post #27

FYI. Title is misleading. This experience has nothing to do Firefox vs Chrome. Result is because of 3rd party cookie and tracker blocking. I had same and even worse (I was not able to get through captcha) experience on chrome itself because I have 3rd party cookies disabled and couple privacy oriented extensions running.

The user is complaining about the slow CSS animations. It's definitely a bug though not something they did on purpose. I remember having the same issue on Chrome as well.

They’re slow because it’s live-challenging two or more recaptcha users at once with an unknown image, right?

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#37

The slow animation is the worst. You really want to punch someone responsible in the face. And I never figure out how to solve the traffic light riddle.

Yes, it's the most obvious internet rage trigger. But I can't figure out why they make a 'delay'? Why not just show the next dam image?

To make it more expensive for bots to try this at scale, obviously. Unfortunately it's making it more expensive for humans too.

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#38
post #28

While relatable, this is just a low effort post more suited for Twitter or Reddit. For a fair comparison OP would need to use clean browser profiles on fresh IPs. Like this it is just fan-service for Google Captcha victims (like me).

I kept looking for the article. Surprised to see such a low-effort post submitted to HN.

Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

#39
I was going through the same ordeal as a Firefox user, so I've made Buster to solve challenges and reclaim some of that lost time: https://github.com/dessant/buster

If you're a developer, please consider replacing reCAPTCHA on your site with an alternative. reCAPTCHA discriminates against people with disabilities and those who seek privacy, and it gaslights you into thinking you did not solve the challenge correctly, which is plain cruel.

Here are some reCAPTCHA alternatives: https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

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