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[–] 83 points 3 months ago (15 children)

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary.. or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    I'm not even doing captchas any more. eBay threw one at me last week so I bought the same item elsewhere.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    REcaptcha isn't a captcha. It's an audiovisual skills test that robots can pass & many humans can't.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Google being a little removed and saying it "detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP" (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    In some cases, providers group multiple end users under one public-facing IP and do some address translation magic to sort out what goes where. Kind of like your whole neighbourhood having a single shared address and a central post office sorting mail into internal post boxes.

    So that "abnormal traffic" might not have been you personally. It could have been some other background process on your computer, or it could have been someone in your vicinity.

    Or their heuristics are spewing shit, who knows. Degoogling isn't a bad idea, at the end of the day.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Curious to know where you went. I buy a lot of stuff on ebay

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They'll use your wifi signal strength to map out where the occupants of your home are and if the one sat at the computer is waving

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