Comment by immibis
1 day ago
The purpose of reCaptcha is to enhance your Google user profile and to deny legitimate users. How does this alternative accomplish those things?
This appears to be a proof-of-work, like Anubis. Real captchas collect much more fingerprinting data to ensure that only users with the latest version of Chrome, the latest version of Windows, and an Nvidia graphics card, can use the site.
Yeah, this fails at its most important task, making those filthy, dirty, Firefox users click on bridges for 1 hour a day.
On topic though, how does this improve on hCaptcha?
Don't forget those criminals with non-residential IPs
> On topic though, how does this improve on hCaptcha?
Cloud vs self-hosted, click annoying things challenge vs automatic proof of work. Or are there other hCaptcha versions and I just never realized it?
oh yes. as a firefox (now librewolf) user, it deeply saddens me.
I know some people who quickly give up and renounce using the service, when they run into hCaptcha puzzles.
I've been bewildered for some time as well, honestly, it took me a while to figure out the first I ran into.
And trying one now, fully knowing that I'd have to solve one, I was dumbfounded by the puzzle I've gotten, it took me a few seconds to understand it.
Cloudflare's ones are horrible and a plague (although they might have slightly improved recently), but I'm not certain I'd prefer hCaptchas over them.
I know this is partially a joke, but I’d like to mention that as a Firefox user with uBo and uMatrix, I almost never have to solve challenges with ReCaptcha.
how? do you just allow all cookies/scripts/xhr on your umatrix? i'm on a similar config and I get captchas far often than any other users on the same network for some reason.
I use the uMatrix plugin to automatically allow what’s required for ReCaptcha, that tends to work. I do get the annoying picker sometimes and have an AI extension to solve it for me, but it’s relatively rare, like 1 out of 5 times max (I generally don’t see RC that often).
No idea how I’d compare to others on my Network, that’d only be my wife and as a Linux user she’d probably get more than me with Windows ;)
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On the other hand as a user of Firefox I simply cannot pass Cloudflare's verification at all, I always end up in a loop. It's been like that for more than a year... Sometimes it does work on a private window, no idea why or how since I have the same extensions enabled.
Do you store cookies?