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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
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this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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Have you considered the possibility you are a robot? /s
There are other captcha providers. If only companies would start using them instead of Google.
Hmmm. It would come as a surprise. I'm willing to consider it tho. :D
Yeah I've had better luck with non-G captchas. Many of those work. There's some sliding puzzle piece one that works fine.
Long run, I wonder if captchas are a dead end. AIs can learn to solve them as well as ppl can. So what remains is to mimic the signatures of a human. Little jitters in mouse movements. Or variations in timing. But AIs can easily learn those too. So we end up with many real humans excluded, while many bots get in.