Comment by user764743

3 years ago

Are there no viable alternatives more respectful of privacy than Google's recaptcha? Seems like an anti-user choice to me.

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britneybitch  3 years ago

There are alternatives:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-altern...

Unfortunately if you're a user (as opposed to a website author) you don't get a choice.

  • Semaphor  3 years ago

    hcaptcha started out nice, but it quickly got way worse. Maybe more privacy, but it wants me to solve so many dumb puzzles, while Google is usually happy with only one.

    If captchas weren’t a rare-ish occurrence for me, I’d buy a nopeCha subscription to solve that shit for me.

    • eatbots  3 years ago

      This is entirely configurable by the site owner. hCaptcha has entirely passive score-based detection, 99.9% passive mode, and more aggressive options as needed.

      (disclosure: work there)

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arbol  3 years ago

We're working on a distributed, privacy-focused captcha system at prosopo. captcha are served by a network of providers so there's no central data store. We're going live this quarter and you can sign up for updates on https://prosopo.io