The purpose of reCaptcha is to enhance your Google user profile and to deny legitimate users. How does this alternative accomplish those things?
This appears to be a proof-of-work, like Anubis. Real captchas collect much more fingerprinting data to ensure that only users with the latest version of Chrome, the latest version of Windows, and an Nvidia graphics card, can use the site.
I know this is partially a joke, but I’d like to mention that as a Firefox user with uBo and uMatrix, I almost never have to solve challenges with ReCaptcha.
On the other hand as a user of Firefox I simply cannot pass Cloudflare's verification at all, I always end up in a loop. It's been like that for more than a year... Sometimes it does work on a private window, no idea why or how since I have the same extensions enabled.
how? do you just allow all cookies/scripts/xhr on your umatrix? i'm on a similar config and I get captchas far often than any other users on the same network for some reason.
I use the uMatrix plugin to automatically allow what’s required for ReCaptcha, that tends to work. I do get the annoying picker sometimes and have an AI extension to solve it for me, but it’s relatively rare, like 1 out of 5 times max (I generally don’t see RC that often).
No idea how I’d compare to others on my Network, that’d only be my wife and as a Linux user she’d probably get more than me with Windows ;)
Yeah (though when it broke thanks to an ff update, a fix was released and then it was archived again). But it still works, and I use it because it has a vastly better interface for domain/type blocking than uBo.
This appears to be a proof-of-work, like Anubis. Real captchas collect much more fingerprinting data to ensure that only users with the latest version of Chrome, the latest version of Windows, and an Nvidia graphics card, can use the site.