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reaperduceryesterday at 9:56 PM5 repliesview on HN

Stop visiting sites and using services that use reCAPTCHA. Problem solved.

No. Bigger problem created, since there are innumerable government, health care, and educational web sites that use reCAPTCHA.

I'm not going to give up reading the test results from my doctor because of some simplistic ideologue decides that it's "problem solved."


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Roark66today at 8:28 AM

At least in my country (Poland) you should be able to make a pretty bug fuss and resulting in them fixing it, if indeed one of ego services made you leak all your data to Google.

People do care about such things.

I hope the same is true in other EU countries.

ethinyesterday at 11:56 PM

The other problem with this is that there are few CAPTCHA alternatives.

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.

yehattoday at 6:15 AM

Compliance is what makes all that shit possible. Sadly most people are compliant and made so by gradually increasing their dependency on "commodities" which really are anchors to a shit lake.

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unethical_banyesterday at 10:12 PM

I agree, and I think CAPTCHA is a disservice on public websites.

majorchordyesterday at 11:27 PM

> I'm not going to give up reading the test results from my doctor

You could just call them.

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