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Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by alexnewman on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:44PM (#24335744)
HCaptcha founder here. I am sorry you had trouble solving captchas. Perhaps your older members might have luck with https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility.
Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by ev1 on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:47PM (#24335788)
Thanks for responding! Do you know if this is linked anywhere within the captcha itself, or is it + Privacy Pass something that the user has to find and look up for themselves?

I don't recall seeing an accessibility link anywhere on an actual captcha HTML block, just a refresh / terms of service button.

Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by alexnewman on Monday August 31, 2020 @06:56PM (#24336698)
That's a great point. It isn't. We just blog about it. Let me bring it up with the team.
Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by buixuanquy on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:20PM (#24338226)
Gosh, your captcha are really hard to solve, and I'm not even 25 year olds yet. Sometime I can't understand the question and what I should select because the images are showing only small part of the objects, and it's keep going and keep going, I must solve 5 - 7 questions before I can access to the target website.
Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by zaarn on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:14AM (#24340150)
For me it's the opposite. hcaptcha questions are usually atleast solvable, even if you get some parts wrong. Google usually wants me to solve 4-5 of the image questions, sometimes I just get fully blocked without explanation and can't solve further captchas.

And that is on top of not having to give more data to google.

Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by miyuru on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:48AM (#24339723)
I experienced the same issue and hcaptcha does not support IPv6. I was baffled when cloudflare decided to use a IPv4 only service.
Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by ffpip on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:09AM (#24340116)
Hcapthas are a godsend compared to Google Captcha. Google always puts me on a loop and asks me to solve 8-10.
Re:Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? by hackerman123469 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:54AM (#24340038)
In the same boat. I had to put it on the easiest but I still fail sometimes and you often have to cross out like 90% of the images given, whereas with competitors like recaptcha it's often just 2 or 3 images.