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A comment on ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns.

Re:ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns by izacus on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:16AM (#30345469)
Heh, hCaptcha is the only thing I dread and hate more than ReCAPTCHA. It pretty much always triggers and it always wants me to find something very american, like US school busses on images where it's not really clear what they actually expect of me.

These services that use us as free workforce need to go away.

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Re:ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns by lurtbancaster on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:10AM (#30345925)
Every captcha I've encountered thus far has been pretty Americentric, and almost by definition, discriminatory against non-Americans[1].

Doubly so against non-Americans with disabilities.

Captcha makers really need to A/B test their product across a wider global sample of people, before they deploy.

On hcaptcha being worse, for those of us using Tor Browser, hcaptcha is significantly less painful than recaptcha - https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=25227431

[1] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-h...

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Re:ReCAPTCHA (A Google Service) Privacy Concerns by eatbots on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:15PM (#30353593)
hCaptcha is in fact tested this way, and has pretty consistent accuracy across hundreds of countries:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/post/do-captchas-really-discriminat...

(disclosure: work there)

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