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I've been using privacy.resistFingerprinting for a while and also recommend it, but there is one major "side effect": your reCAPTCHA score will drop to 0.1 making many websites really tedious to use. It's a price I'm willing to pay though...

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reCAPTCHA is a Google thing so it gets blocked in my browser already anyway (by uMatrix). If I need to load it to see a website, I close the tab immediately and go somewhere else.

You need reCAPTCHA to log into HN (or at least I do when I'm working from some parts of the middle east)

I log into HN almost everyday, each time from a different location (Tor) and I've never seen a reCAPTCHA on HN.

Sounds like you might have been going through some sort of proxy...

I use a mobile app and have gotten errors saying I need to solve a captcha. Since I can't do that on this app, it just means I'll stop commenting for a couple days until HN decides to stop bothering me.

That's happened twice, and it really hasn't been a big deal. I've never actually done a captcha for HN, it's just not worth it to me.

Which HN app are you using? Materialistic (Android) and Hackers (iOS) have worked for me with no CAPTCHA issues, even with a VPN.

https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

Do you never buy anything online or log into anything? They're blocked for me too but I will unblock them temporarily when the need arises.

> ne major "side effect": your reCAPTCHA score will drop to 0.1 making many websites really tedious to use.

I instantly leave a website that has this aggressive reCaptcha that uses free labour to train algorithms.

Dito. This thing must be boycotted

I personally take the route of training the algorithms poorly. It wants me to select streetlights? Fine, I'll pick all but one streetlight and maybe even a tree. Do I have to click more boxes because of this? For sure. Is it worth it? Yep.

>Is it worth it? Yep.

It is not. 100_000s of people got/will get the same picture and marked squares correctly.

Making recaptcha worthless by making it so intrusive no one will use it.

I love this idea. Recaptcha is god awful.

It could work if Firefox had as much marketshare as Chrome...

Just install Buster, it'll solve reCaptcha for you (just make sure to set a non-google STT engine)

Just another one of 10 thousand reasons why reCAPTCHA is utter cancer on the web. I've been traveling a lot for the past few years and public wifi combined with a bunch of other things makes _my_ reCapatcha ask me to answer multiple queries every single time.

By this point if I see reCaptcha I just close the window unless it's something _really_ important.

Also reCaptcha isn't any more secure than any other recent captcha solution when it comes to bot protection FYI.

No wonder reCAPTCHA sucks so hard. I hardly ever run into it, but it's a PITA.

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