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Comment by Cider9986

7 days ago

I saw a post on the GrapheneOS forum of someone who was accosted by Google with this requirement, so they are certainly using it.

It's interesting the parallels of Google's recaptcha and Cloudflare turnstile.

Cloudflare is free, no image selector, allows VPNs and Tor for the most part, just 0 click with a good ip reputation and 1 click with a bad one.

Recaptcha is paid, trains waymos, sucks millions of hours of human time, asks for camera access, asks for a phone attestation, blocks VPNs/Tor.

Thank god less sites are using ReCAPTCHA.

Looking forward to some other solutions gaining prominence eventually as well.

Like that Anime girl one.

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KomoD  5 days ago

> just 0 click with a good ip reputation and 1 click with a bad one.

Or it goes on forever without passing, which can also happen, and then you simply can't proceed. It also really does not work over TOR in my experience.

I've had it happen a bunch of times, but Recaptch usually falls back to the image challenge if I can't pass V3. It might force me to solve several of them, but it eventually lets me pass.

lesostep  5 days ago

Cloudflare allows you to pass with 1 click? I had as many as 10 minutes of solving capchas on ot before turning away

I'm pretty sure, Cloudflare capchas could be endless

  • addandsubtract  5 days ago

    As soon as I get more than 2 captchas, I'm out. At that point, I'm assuming they're just testing my patience to train their models. Switching VPN servers is much more effective.

  • potus_kushner  5 days ago

    yeah, they are as soon as you use a non-mainstream browser. never got past cloudflare with the Pale Moon browser, for instance. seeing a site like reclaimthenet - fighting for a free internet - gated behind cloudflare struck me as odd, to say the least. i just had to prove that i'm not a bot to be able to read the article.

m463  3 days ago

Cloudflare routinely denies me access to many websites - I get "turn on javascript and cookies" and then get an "old browser" denial.

I even get "Sorry." logging onto HN from time to time (which I think is cloudflare). It usually works again the next day.