“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”
Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary… or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.
Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.
Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.
In some cases, providers group multiple end users under one public-facing IP and do some address translation magic to sort out what goes where. Kind of like your whole neighbourhood having a single shared address and a central post office sorting mail into internal post boxes.
So that “abnormal traffic” might not have been you personally. It could have been some other background process on your computer, or it could have been someone in your vicinity.
Or their heuristics are spewing shit, who knows. Degoogling isn’t a bad idea, at the end of the day.
“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”
Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary… or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.
Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.
They’ll use your wifi signal strength to map out where the occupants of your home are and if the one sat at the computer is waving
Quit giving them ideas!
I’m not even doing captchas any more. eBay threw one at me last week so I bought the same item elsewhere.
REcaptcha isn’t a captcha. It’s an audiovisual skills test that robots can pass & many humans can’t.
good for it…
add more layers and I’ll do the same, close the tab and just go elsewhere. it’s not worth the hassle.
Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.
In some cases, providers group multiple end users under one public-facing IP and do some address translation magic to sort out what goes where. Kind of like your whole neighbourhood having a single shared address and a central post office sorting mail into internal post boxes.
So that “abnormal traffic” might not have been you personally. It could have been some other background process on your computer, or it could have been someone in your vicinity.
Or their heuristics are spewing shit, who knows. Degoogling isn’t a bad idea, at the end of the day.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/
I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/