Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by ribtoks on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:18AM
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There are other captcha alternatives like Turnstile, for example Private Captcha, Altcha etc. - they are owned by mostly “small” independent companies, they are not visual captchas (proof-of-work based) and very accesssible.
Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by userbinator on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:32AM
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You could just have a custom one that asks domain-specific questions (and ones which will trip up LLMs are not hard to come by.) I've seen a few forums ask such questions for registration, long before the rise of LLMs.
Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by fireflash38 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:34AM
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The answer that no one likes: make it cost a nominal amount of money.
Enough to make it so bots are expensive to run.
CF turnstile is one, but of course that means Cloudflare owns even more of the web.
HCaptcha is inaccessible and actively discriminatory against individuals with disabilities and refuses to change, to the point that I suspect the only way that they will do anything is to file a class-action against them and sue them into the ground.
And I... Can't think of anything else. Other than to just get rid of Captchas entirely.