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Have you tried a re captcha yet? They're awful on firefox (read: non-chrome), especially if not signed into a google account.

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This seemed to work well. I can't find a better test.

https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/

Is there any good alternative to recaptcha?

That question has come up a few times, lots of good discussion in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058697

And the back and forth on whether you really need it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386

Recaptcha works fine on FF...

Sure it works be Google will make ff do more steps and even load the images slower on the "click till non match" ones

It's not that it doesn't work, it's that there is an anecdotal bias towards making you do more work to prove you're not a robot.

I don't use Chrome, so I can't tell how bad it is on a comparative basis, but (especially in private browsing mode) Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images looking for the traffic lights or what not before letting you continue.

> Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images

That's when I just leave. If I'm feeling nice, I'll drop the site owner a note explaining why, but usually not.

Nobody's site is that great.

I had to stop ordering from Newegg because they wanted me to recaptcha just to log into my account. It seems to be fixed now, though.

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