I saw both variants in both browsers.
Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
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Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#72FYI. 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.
Probably you are right. I use tracker and 3rd party cookies blocking in FF and I often spend 30-60 seconds solving captchas. Often Google says that I solved it wrong (although I try to be careful) so I have to solve it 3-4 times, sometimes with those slowly appearing images. Upgraded my skills of recognising bridges, buses and fire hydrants but still struggle with searching storefronts.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are updates coming that will make it much more tied to your google account. i fear that it will mean anybody not currently logged in is assumed to be a robot. (even more so than now, i mean.)
According to the recent Planet Money podcast on Captcha, the upcoming changes will only use the signal of whether or not you have an account, and not any account-based data, since it will be domain based on the website or something. Also, they're doing away with the questionnaire. It works by using a scoring system or something similar since it loads on the pages leading up to form fills. Edit: Source for you disbeli…
> It just "works" by default.
right. until it doesn't, like it wouldn't for someone who actively avoids feeding their personal information to the goog. and it is sounding an awful lot like the fail case is full denial of service, without any option for the user to prove themselves.
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#74Google Captcha is a complete mess at this point and I often leave websites that use it if it's not essential to what I am doing
The newest version is going to be invisible - i.e. it just "works" without a questionnaire. It's based on a scoring system that doesn't prompt users unless the website owner wants to prompt them below a specific score. You've likely already used it but don't remember it because it was invisible.
That was supposed to be what this version was (reCaptcha v3). As a matter of fact, however, quite a few of us get extremely long or unsolvable captchas every time.
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#75I thought this was just me and their stupid caption being impossible for even humans to solve; turns out I was just being gaslighted this entire time and they're just discriminating against Firefox users? How does the EU or someone not shut down this sort of anti-competative monopolostic nosense? I didn't think I could get more furious about having to struggle with these captions all day, but somehow I am. Please everyone stop using recaptcha on your sites, it's not worth the pain it costs your users.
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#76Ha! Been there, done that. I registered with Patreon (using Firefox), then tried to login (using Firefox) after verifying my email address. Nineteen (19) Captcha screens later and I gave up. Seriously. Bastards (and apologies to the Creatives I was trying to contribute to).
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#78reCaptcha's not all bad guys, it's actually educational.
It's thanks to reCaptcha that I know what a 'crosswalk' is.
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#79Google Captcha is a complete mess at this point and I often leave websites that use it if it's not essential to what I am doing
I don't log in to Google Captcha sites anymore, unless I absolutely have to.
Their discrimination against FF users has been fairly evident over the past year or so.
It's amazing how my identification abilities improve exponentially by using Chrome instead of Firefox.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#80It looks like the user missed one fire hydrant in the middle left square. If you look closely there is a tiny fire hydrant in that picture.