I've seen that behavior using chrome on linux when using public wifi networks.
Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
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Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#82This doesn't make sense to me. Making reCaptcha work worse in FF without telling user that if he/she used Chrome it would be better. Only few tech savvy people (hn readers), will eventually realize that. And it doesn't make them to switch to Chrome (or does it?). They'll just be angry.
And btw I hate reCaptcha. Is it really only option to fight with spam? When I see it on sites, like dhl parcel tracking, I get mad. I always ask why? Can they just block suspicious traffic, or at least not display captcha on first attempt.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#83I 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,…
>If you're a developer, please consider replacing reCAPTCHA on your site with an alternative
I second this (for the same reasons that you cite), and it's fresh in my mind as I just recently began reimplementing authentication for my personal CMS. reCAPTCHA is not a nice thing to do to your users. And I also don't want to feed The Beast.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can you have a fresh IP which isn't in your control?
Many of us have control of our IP Address within a certain range. In fact I have to specially request a static IP and pay money for it. A dynamic IP that changes when I refresh DHCP on the edge router is free.
> A dynamic IP that changes when I refresh DHCP on the edge router is free.
But you don't know who had it before you, what Google thinks of it ("known Spammer", "legitimate User") etc, so that's not going to help in this case.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#85I 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,…
reCAPTCHA also just doesn't work in the most populous country in the world. translate.google.cn does, but Google's reCAPTCHA does not. This is a big pain point. Thanks for the link to turingtest, I will certainly test it.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#86Dear developers, if you want to avoid most of the bots use only HTTP/2 and only TLS v1.3. Don't support lower protocols than these ones and your bot problem will decrease greatly. Even GoogleBot won't be able to crawl your web site.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#87This is exactly what you would encounter if you access Google services using TOR. It's actually even more frustrating than this.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#88While 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).
FWIW I encountered the same problem this weekend. On a fresh Firefox profile (no prior browsing activity), reCAPTCHA just wouldn't let me log in to a website! Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how long they deny me -- well over ten minutes before I gave up in shock and horror.
It felt like staring into the soul of evil.
Re: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
#89Would it be possible to build a Firefox plugin that creates and isolates the requisite cookies to allow reputation to be built, but at least partially maintains privacy?
I was thinking maybe something that has 10 difference Google sessions, and shards them depending on the website, deciding which to send to the Captcha. You'd build reputation at 1/10th the speed, but you'd still potentially build it. Or, one that allows you to create a random Gmail account and then use that as your identity across the different sites. Perfect privacy would be hard, but improved privacy should be doable.
Alternatively, getting something like blinded identity tokens widely used would be good.
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#90The Google captcha enrages me. Why should I train their stupid AI?
To provide compensation for the websites use of their free, and effective, service designed to combat bots?