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Re:Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha? by jhasse on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:19PM (#21327522)
If Google doesn't like a client (e.g. Firefox users) they can just set their score to 0 and break half the internet.
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Re:Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha? by zeroxfe on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:23PM (#21327559)
You could say that for any captcha library though.
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Re:Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha? by albertsondev on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:32PM (#21327662)
But the risk is doubly so for a closed-source codebase maintained by a company with a history of doing this sort of stuff.
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