News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA. Parent comment

Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by imtringued on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:57AM (#20162609)
ReCAPTCHA basically looks up your google account and checks your browsing history and if your IP looks "spammy" to determine if you are a bot. The actual challenge is just a data mining operation and isn't meant to actually prove if you are a human because if it has determined you are not a human it won't let you through even if you do 10 challenges correctly.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by mda on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:43AM (#20163068)
Theoretocally it might use signals when you are logged in, but Recaptcha also works when you are not logged into google. So, not really.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by throwaway2048 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:05AM (#20164116)
Just because login isn't required, dosen't mean its not recorded.
[ Parent | on HN ]