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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by owly on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:14PM (#27327102)
Thank you for explaining here, I really appreciate the work you’re doing and understand the non-trivial work it takes to protect users. While l’d love a Google free experience for PM, I also love having a near zero chance of a brute force attack. I’m a paid PM user and have been using it since the very early beta days. I never see the CAPTCHA on any OS, but I only connect from about 5 different IPs or while using ProtonVPN.

Off topic: please implement font size adjustment capability on iOS!

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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by totalZero on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:18PM (#27327118)
This isn't an explanation, insofar as it's identical to the bartbutler post in the submission itself.
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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by escr0w on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:43PM (#27327335)
I feel like they have pretty much cleared the issue up. Any coder would agree that a captcha service is actually very hard to build. Especially a good one. What they're doing isn't exactly 100% wrong, but it isn't 100% right either. Either way, they're implementing hCaptcha. I see no issue?
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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by CoNet on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:51PM (#27327390)
This means ProtonMail know who you are if you did not use third-party VPN.
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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login by b0tzzzzzzman on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:17PM (#27328281)
Yes, but the ussue being pointed out is third party google.. Also being made aware. Many users pay proton for the services. Should we also be upset about payment processors logging this? Last time I tried to make a new protonmail, a phone number or non protonmail account was required. The limit which emails are valid.

They are not what they were, what they stood against. They have been assimilated.

Sad times. But, hey they reply unlike the big G.

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