Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use - Hackdot

Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by Mediterraneo10 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:45AM (#22847048)

I wouldn't mind CAPTCHA hell so much if the tasks I was doing were benefiting libre projects that everyone could draw on, like OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia. The offensive thing about CAPTCHA is that your work is for the sole sake of improving one corporation’s product.

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Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by rapnie on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:19AM (#22847172)

That would be a great idea for a captcha project! You might wanna post to open-source-ideas: https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas

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Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by Mediterraneo10 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:20AM (#22847179)

There are already alternative CAPTCHA projects. The problem is that the most-visited websites on the internet never adopted them, instead content to use Google's solution.

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Re:Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge fo... by asah on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:13AM (#22847147)

I thought this was in lieu of payment...

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