Comment by imtringued

6 years ago

reCAPTCHA is the most abusive type of tracking. Google simply denys you usage of captcha if you do not give them enough personal information. It doesn't matter if you enter the captcha correctly 20 times. It won't let you in.

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meowface  6 years ago

This is part of the bot detection, though. It's probably not "not enough personal information", it's "this truly seems like it is unlikely to be a legitimate device/person", due to the huge datasets they're working with. Same with Cloudflare and Tor. Once you operate a security service anywhere near that scale, you start to understand there are inherent challenges and tradeoffs like these,

pdkl95  6 years ago

reCAPTCHA increasingly doesn't even give me a captcha. Instead, they simply deny me from even trying; They send this instead of the challenge:

  <div>
    <noscript>
      Please enable JavaScript to
      get a reCAPTCHA challenge.<br>
    </noscript>
    <div class="if-js-enabled">
      Please upgrade to a
      <a href="[1]">supported browser</a>
      to get a reCAPTCHA challenge.
    </div>
    <br><br>
    <a href="[2]" target="_blank">
    Why is this happening to me?</a>
  </div>

They probably don't like my non-standard user agent string and they definitely don't like that I block a lot of their spyware, but reCAPTCHA used to work properly for many years with the same/similar browser configuration.

[1] https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en#6223828

[2] https://support.google.com/recaptcha#6262736