Google reCAPTCHA

“benefits the wider population of the internet to the extent that everybody can use them”

“It still works, bots can solve it but it probably increases the cost of that web call by 10x or 100x”

“even after solving the recaptcha it just wont accept and after multiple attemots even if it accepts it just goes on to display it all over again”

“Google dropped it on them and they are at least temporarily stuck with it”

“Google has reduced the free tier limit for reCAPTCHA v3 from 1 million down to 10,000 assessments per month”

“It’s absurd, but these nominally-security tools frequently genuinely train users to become susceptible to attacks.”

“If you make your connection too anonymous, Google's recaptcha will not let your through until you use your mobile phone to prove your humanity”

“With recaptcha it can take me much longer than 5 seconds, and lately I have trouble even completing their challenges correctly.”

“It's the easiest captcha to solve automatically, with many extensions available.”

“they had to solve like 3 round of reCAPTCHAs to finally be able to... get into a fb login page over again”

“That does heavily restrict what websites a browser can access.”

“It might force me to solve several of them, but it eventually lets me pass.”

“seems like a good solution to the problem of human verification”

“I have a 100% failure rate on. If Google decide to serve me 15 of those in a row, I will invariably fail 15 times”

“Recaptcha suffered from its own success eventually, having to ask people to read nearly impossible things”

“Sometimes they've already decided you might be a bot, so they'll decide to claim you failed the first several rounds no matter what.”

“it's Google's second attempt at device attestation (ie. the widely panned web integrity tech they're trying to push through)”

“only a certified device can approve it, meaning this takes away any open-source platform to prove you're a human”

“we fell back to recaptcha. Fraud rates were 100x higher in those minutes-to-hours outages.”

“if you use a non-cheomium browser and/or block tracking, you are more likely to trigger a non-invisible prompt”

“there wasn't really a compelling reason to switch”

“Your data is private[ly] and secure[ly stored in plain text on our servers so that it's only accessed by us and shared with the advertising partners we choose].”

“pressing the audio challenge button will just give you an error saying "To protect our users, we can't process your request right now"”

“The new reCAPTCHA on desktop shows you a QR code for you to scan with your Google-approved phone to prove you have one.”

“reCAPTCHA is completely invisible for most human visitors because they are allowed to pass just by fingerprint.”

“while Google is definitely malicious, I don't think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative”

“Google is using its market power (as the provider of reCAPTCHA) to actively prevent devices that don’t use Google Play Services from competing effectively.”

“However much I hate it, right now among the sites using reCAPTCHA there are many that I strongly want to use.”

“but really designed to train models to do exactly what it's trying to prevent them from doing. and making life hell for the humans along the way”

“I've already trained myself to commit to giving up immediately after the second bus or traffic light or puzzle”

“The attestation will include a unique ID of the phone, so that if you get banned you have to keep buying new phones”

“when we tried to integrate their fraud signals, they were worthless, worse than the rest of the industry”

“you will need a modern Android device with Google Play Services installed or a modern iPhone/iPad to be allowed to browse the web”

“reCAPTCHA is a great success story of security through obscurity”

“will block most headless browsers but very invasive”

“Had lots of people signing up for a more complicated version on Google Cloud that they didn't need to do.”

“It'll often gaslight you and pretend you failed a captcha of identifying something as simple as fire hydrants.”

“it still gets spam sent through it (though vastly less)”

“This type of captcha is too infuriating so I always skip it until I get the ones where I'm just selecting an entire image”

“Looks like `archive.is` is currently using reCaptcha.”