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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by cameronbrown on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:42PM (#20149522)
It's very easy to argue that CAPTCHA is an essential service and therefore not under GDPR.

> anti-discrimination law

Google-avoiders are not a protected class.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by mdekkers on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:19AM (#20152987)
> It's very easy to argue that CAPTCHA is an essential service and therefore not under GDPR

No it isn't. In fact, out-of-the-box reCaptcha is not GDPR compliant, and using it on your site will open you up to possible liability. See https://complianz.io/google-recaptcha-and-the-gdpr-a-possibl...

My reCaptcha strategy is to fire off an email to the site owners every time I am subjected to a reCaptcha, asking for all my data under GDPR. Most websites only need a few such requests to quickly start looking for an alternative. Fuck Google and their constant attacks on my rights.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by Dylan16807 on Monday June 10, 2019 @08:00PM (#20152037)
The blind are. And the audio captcha is roughly useless.
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