Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by NelsonMinar on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:53PM (#20149060)

reCAPTCHA needs to be re-engineered to work even in the face of privacy measures in browsers. Otherwise it will be better at distinguishing expert humans from ordinary humans than at distinguishing bots from humans.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by themacguffinman on Monday June 10, 2019 @03:36PM (#20150005)

I'm sure there's room for improvement but at some point this is paradoxical. Users who want data privacy want their presence and behavior obfuscated, which is fundamentally opposed to anti-fraud systems which are designed to analyze the presence and behavior of users to determine if they are fraudulent.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by ClassyJacket on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:35PM (#20151904)

The way recaptcha happens to work now, and its purported goal - to differentiate humans from bots - are two different things. Privacy is not fundamentally opposed to anti-fraud in the slightest.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by themacguffinman on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:04AM (#20153879)

I said that privacy is fundamentally opposed to anti-fraud systems, not the general concept of anti-fraud. To an automated anti-fraud system, there is no difference between a user who obfuscates their identity because they want privacy and a bot who obfuscates its identity because it doesn't want to be revealed as a bot.

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