Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch to hCaptcha?

Posted by homero on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by eatbots on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:52PM (#25985674)

Works better at stopping bots, costs less than reCAPTCHA Enterprise since it doesn't need to store your browsing history for the last decade.

(disclosure: work there)

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by detaro on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:40PM (#25985282)

Google started charging for captchas.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by homero on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:12PM (#26008945)

Wow but they already get free AI training

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by ev1 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:41PM (#25985288)

They haven't, you're probably just running into cloudflare captchas.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by homero on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:29PM (#25985217)

I see it everywhere, even Cloudflare switched. Was it a privacy thing?

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Re:Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch ... by NetOpWibby on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:36PM (#25985253)

hCaptcha isn’t run by Google. That’s reason enough for me.

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