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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by swebs on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:17PM (#20149305)
Honest question: can we start a class action lawsuit for psychological damages due to this? I've experienced this firsthand when trying to use a service through a VPN. I spent legitimately 5 minutes trying to get through only to get "Please try again" every time even though I selected them meticulously. It is infuriating. I thought I was going crazy
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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by beefhash on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:53PM (#20149599)
In fact, Google has a patent on blocking users by means of CAPTCHAs that always return failure[1].

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by adtac on Monday June 10, 2019 @09:33PM (#20152424)
> In fact, Google has a patent on blocking users by means of CAPTCHAs that always return failure[1].

Erm, unless I'm mistaken, that patent says it's owned by Juniper, not Google. Google is just hosting the patent document.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by m463 on Monday June 10, 2019 @09:39PM (#20152443)
You cannot make an appointment on the california dmv website without using google services, in particular recaptcha. Also, just browsing the website, it tries to log you in.

https://dmv.ca.gov

additionally, lots of schools now require their students to use google services.

I hope there is a privacy lawsuit in the future to stop this sort of nonsense.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by Avamander on Monday June 10, 2019 @04:39PM (#20150582)
I just click randomly on Chrome and get trough .-.
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