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So nothing will change then?

ReCaptcha already appears to have some grudge against me, presumably by virtue of running Firefox and comprehensive ad-blocking, so blocking yet another google thing isn't going to make my life substantially worse.

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Google already penalizes non-Chrome users by showing them more ads, in particular ads for Chrome. The choice becomes more stark by the day.

May I ask what kind of setup you're running with Firefox? I'm having Firefox on a MBP with only uBlock but I rarely get any recaptcha. Am I mistaken in thinking I'm securing my privacy?

Are you logged into Google? Not on Firefox itself, just in one of their properties. I have the same setup and don’t get recaptcha either, I think it’s probably because I’m either logged into my personal long-standing gmail or my work g suite account. My guess is if I used the container stuff to isolate Google like I do Facebook then it would start triggering it.

I do get recaptcha all the time in Safari on iOS despite being logged into Google there too, not sure what that’s about.

I only login to Google in a dedicated Firefox Container, and yes I'm getting really sick of ReCaptcha. It's amazingly user hostile at this point, and I suppose that it doesn't help that I need two or three attempts at this point to "pass" its challenges, because its machine learning algorithm and I disagree on what constitutes a "street sign" or something dumb like that. It's making me want to avoid websites that use ReCaptcha challenges altogether.

On desktop: * NextDNS for DNS over Http (Mac vpn application) * Firefox + uBlock (Matrix version) * google + fb accounts live in container tabs

On mobile: * NextDNS (same app vpn setup on iOS) with aggressive blocks enabled * Safari content blocker for anything that gets missed.

Every time I get a recaptcha, it invariably turns into a multi-round affair.

uBlock with all third party requests blocked. That means I don't even see recaptcha, but when I explicitly enable it for a site, it takes 3-4 rounds to pass. Logged on to gmail and youtube.

My strategy for this has been to switch to a different browser (Brave, simply because it's Chrome-ish and runs on Linux). Since the reCaptcha network has seen this browser before I'm seldom abused with more than one or two rounds of image guessing.

OTOH when I see reCaptcha-wanted websites I'm mostly inclined to just bounce. There has to be a really compelling use-case to propel me to go to all the bother.

Start playing around with these

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...

Privacy comes with a price.

I guess I'm lucky I'm in Europe, where the majority of sites do not use recaptcha (I think it's illegal under GDPR). A minority of sites I use try to load it, but don't care if it fails, and only a few irritating sites I would use actually require it.

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