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Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by OrgNet on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:12PM (#20298199)
I use pretty standard extensions... uBlockO, decentral eyes, smart referrer... I just wish that companies would stop using Google's reCAPTCHA service.

Also my IP address rarely changes and I don't think that any malicious traffic is coming from it.

And I have Comcast, so I hope that they didn't blacklist all of us...

(I did talk bad about Google a few times though, maybe that's it)

Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by saagarjha on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:18PM (#20299418)
Those aren’t extensions that an average user would install.
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by bduerst on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:41PM (#20300045)
Just Smart Referer alone is a likely culprit. Masking or having no referer is a prime attribute for low-level bots.
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by OrgNet on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:47PM (#20300469)
oh... so i should not be able to use any websites because of the extensions I use?
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by dodobirdlord on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:04PM (#20301139)
You should not be able to use any website that the host doesn't want you to use. That seems pretty straightforward. There's a strong correlation between profiles that look like yours and bots. Why should the web admin do free labor for you to put together a sufficiently nuanced bot-detection system to tell the difference, when the one they have is clearly good enough for them?
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by KirinDave on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:24AM (#20301955)
Stop using smart referrer. It has no legitimate purposes. Referrer URLs are not the problem. You look like a bot and you going to get locked out of sites.

If you're actually concerned about that kind of data leakage, you want NoScript, full stop.