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Re:Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins? by amf12 on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:18PM (#34313834)
> but if every site had their own in-house tool

Costs money to maintain and build correctly, which naturally leads to buying existing solutions.

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Re:Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins? by LinuxBender on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:25PM (#34313949)
I've heard that too, but I think it would take a decent developer 1 hour to make a first pass at such a thing. It doesn't have to be complicated nor perfect. I'm not even a developer and I bet I could make one. I'll work on one for one of my sites.
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Re:Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins? by waspight on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:30PM (#34314043)
Said every customer
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Re:Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins? by Filligree on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:31AM (#34325363)
I've seen a couple sites that do this. One of them just asks for the square root of -1!

And sure, qntm.org isn't nearly as big a website as HN, but I concur that this isn't likely to be super-difficult. The wide use of recaptcha seems like mostly laziness; most websites aren't big enough to get targeted attacks.

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