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A comment on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome. Parent comment

Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by matt-attack on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:20PM (#20152586)
To understand the depth and complexity of Captcha2 I highly recommend this:

https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-bots-check-“I-am-not-a-robot”...

Was posted on HN a while ago.

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Re:Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome by zrm on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:10AM (#20153513)
So the short version is that they try to fingerprint the user and then distinguish fingerprints that seem like humans from fingerprints that don't.

The interesting question then becomes how this is going to interact with future browser anti-fingerprinting measures whose purpose is to prevent just that.

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