Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by afiori on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:08AM (#23904669)

This does not really make sense, it would be perfectly fine if two products existed, a cheap inaccessible captcha and a more expensive perfectly accessible one with companies offering both of them to users.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by StavrosK on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:06AM (#23905406)

Fine in what sense? In my opinion, it is not fine to block disabled users out of webpages just because it costs a bit more to let them in.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by afiori on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:59AM (#23905639)

That is not happening in what I described. A webpage could decide to offer the cheapest working captcha as a default with a "Are you using assistive technologies?" / "Do you need help?" link to a more accessible service.

I don't think that is will be common in the wild, but it is an argument against regulating captcha providers rather than websites.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by StavrosK on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:27AM (#23905747)

Oh, I see what you mean. There may be a market for "accessible CAPTCHA", that's audio-only.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by alexnewman on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:47PM (#23946721)

Have you tried our accessibility option? It's perfectly accessible https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility

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