I browse the net on VPN 99.9999% of the time and generally use firefox with privacy addons. So Recaptcha is an absolute cunt to people like me.

I just got done being prompted 15 times in a row before saying fuck this shit. Normally, I use ddg or searx.be for searches but it seems like some sites just like to troll me by using this shite for DDOS protection, registration, etc.

Really wish more sites would use competing captcha vendors like hcaptcha, friendly captcha, pretty much any other alternative, or even rolling their own. (one thing i loved when i used to use poal was their answer Hillary4Prison)

TL;DR - why do people still use shitty google captcha?

  • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Haven’t run into problems with hcaptcha yet myself but I’ll take your word on it

    Most of my complaints with Google’s recaptcha fall into:

    • them being more aggressive to users of Firefox/vpn/privacy addon and requiring a lot more screens of verification than normal
    • On the multi image tiles, adding long 5+ second delays when you click an image and they replace it
    • on the single image divided into a grid, they are never clear on border scenarios (eg edge of whatever in another tile) and in many cases choose pictures where the thing being selected occupies a large number of tiles. Combined with the first bullet point, this creates a massive number of clicks to pass verification

    But yeah, if there’s something else that bypasses picture selection altogether, I’m totally down for that. I’ve seen some that have you rotate an image and never had issues with those either.