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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

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Post by shawnz »

fasthandle wrote: post #85
dessant wrote: post #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,…

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.

I thought recaptcha provided alternate domains/hosts not linked to Google so that you can use it in China. Is that not the case anymore?

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

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Post by SCHiM »

Big rant, there are few things I hate more than filling out their endless useless CAPTCHA's when browsing websites that have nothing to do with Google.

Google is a hypocritical pile of burning . They use bots right? They scrape websites, they infest everything from my banking website to console emulators with their tracking, and yet we little people are not allowed to scrape or interface with the web programmatically.

I want them to burn so badly, I hope the EU breaks them up. Screw captcha, screw AWP, screw them.

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

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Post by driverdan »

llao wrote: 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).

This is a common problem with FF if you have any privacy settings enabled. ReCAPTCHA does deep fingerprinting. If you block that fingerprinting it punishes you.

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

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Post by jakear »

luckylion wrote: post #84
Someone1234 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe try buying up some unclaimed IPv6 space and test from there?

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

#98

Post by luckylion »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #69
ziddoap wrote: post #2

The fire hydrant example... I deal with this every day. It takes soooo looooong to load, it's really ridiculous.

There have literally been times where I debated whether or not I wanted to purchase something because of the knowledge that I would have to solve Google's captcha. Humble Bundle, in particular--the login process for me (due to uBlock+uMatrix installed) is like this: 1) Try to login 2) Login doesn't show up--go to uMatrix and whitelist some crap. 3) Try to login again. 4) First phase of login completes, now blank when…

It always amazes me that companies, especially those that know their audience is tech savvy, don't test their sites/shops/systems with common things like ad blockers or privacy plugins. I often run into hidden problems on sites that go away after I allow some third party domain.

I wonder if it's just incompetence at the developer stage or a management decision to annoy users that have ad block etc. Neither really makes sense, I'm a paying customers, they shouldn't take it personally that I don't care for ads, and they are multi-million (or even multi-billion) companies, surely somebody there knows that ad blockers exist.

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

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Post by novaleaf »

shawnz wrote: post #91
fasthandle wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I thought recaptcha provided alternate domains/hosts not linked to Google so that you can use it in China. Is that not the case anymore?

if this is true, I'd love to hear the alternate! I use recaptcha and hate that my chinese customers need to do wacky stuff to circumvent it.

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

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Post by deforciant »

I have noticed that Google often signs me off from my multiple Google accounts on FF too :/ While Chrome (which I use only for Hangouts) remains logged in. A bit annoying! :D

Also, good to see that it's a more widespread issue with these captchas too, I somehow thought that I am just bad at solving them :)

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