recaptcha

Yes, the reCAPTCHA widget is localized[1], but that doesn't automatically mean every term is localized properly. But the underlying point of the article stands. This is similar to the mythical statement that some park ranger once stated "it's very hard to design a trash can that no bears can use, but that every human can." reCAPTCHA, like CloudFlare, benefits the wider population of the internet to the extent that everybody can use them, but there are edge cases where some outlier users get locked out of necessary internet infrastructure because they can't grok the ask, can't correctly identify the options, or because their computer / IP is being abused by bots so they are in the splash damage range of the bot checkers. [1] https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/68

AFAIK, reCaptcha is not based on user behaviour anymore since v3, but uses proprietary network host information from Google. See this issue opened in 2018: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/235

> it appears there is a bug that's causing the site to reload Google's recaptcha multiple times I forgot to mention that it is not a bug. See https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/335 for example (I believe there are others issues like this in the repo)

I started getting captchas on every login last week. Can embedded Google captcha script access pre-filled login and password values, which are on same login page? If so, is HN potentially leaking this to Google? I think the only valid place for captchas is account registration page, not login page. Might be relevant: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/107

they're just discriminating against Firefox users? At least part of the behaviour shown in the video depends on factors like cookies, IP address, and whether you have features like anti-fingerprinting protection turned on. [1] Recaptcha is frustrating and I dislike it, especially the slow fade-ins and multiple challenges, but if you repeat the test shown in the video you won't find it 100% repeatable just because you're using Firefox. [1] https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268#issuecomment-...

This is the experience with the `privacy.resistFingerprinting` flag set to true. A while back I made a few try to see how the behavior change with different settings and extensions, you can see the result here: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268#issuecomment-... I solved the problem by using an extension that toggle that flag: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-resist...

Oh no Google ReCaptcha doesn't work that way. In case of rate limiting, they will just throw an error. It's probably some clever JS or CSS that got a bug in it. Here's the official thread on GH: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268 Disclaimer: We built a solution at SerpApi.com to solve those offline using ML. Timing of solving doesn't matter. It will be odd that they do that just to annoy user when it's not a technical limitation.

This can be pretty frustrating and we’re occasionally hopeless what to do. Especially when there’s no apparent reason for the low score. Eg https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/248