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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Wheaties466 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:46AM (#21825991)
I just downloaded their browser 10 min ago and I can't really tell any difference in search. Haven't really tried any other g products yet.

They claim to be open and most things are opt in but im not sure why their "human web" is not opt in.

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by big_chungus on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:56AM (#21826109)
Have you tried a re captcha yet? They're awful on firefox (read: non-chrome), especially if not signed into a google account.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Wheaties466 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:01PM (#21826862)
This seemed to work well. I can't find a better test.

https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by true_religion on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:41AM (#21826634)
Is there any good alternative to recaptcha?
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by ben509 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:57PM (#21831400)
That question has come up a few times, lots of good discussion in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058697

And the back and forth on whether you really need it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by bifrost on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:51AM (#21826749)
Recaptcha works fine on FF...
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by jcranmer on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:58PM (#21828022)
It's not that it doesn't work, it's that there is an anecdotal bias towards making you do more work to prove you're not a robot.

I don't use Chrome, so I can't tell how bad it is on a comparative basis, but (especially in private browsing mode) Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images looking for the traffic lights or what not before letting you continue.

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by __jal on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:22PM (#21829628)
> Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images

That's when I just leave. If I'm feeling nice, I'll drop the site owner a note explaining why, but usually not.

Nobody's site is that great.

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by boring_twenties on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:39AM (#21832547)
I had to stop ordering from Newegg because they wanted me to recaptcha just to log into my account. It seems to be fixed now, though.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by vorticalbox on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:53PM (#21827972)
Sure it works be Google will make ff do more steps and even load the images slower on the "click till non match" ones
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