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Posted by unforgivenpasta 20 hours ago

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA(cloud.google.com)
341 points | 351 commentspage 4
danborn26 5 hours ago||
The constant arms race between bot detection and accessibility is exhausting. I hope this doesn't heavily penalize legitimate users on VPNs.
gwerbin 46 minutes ago|
It will and nobody at Google will care because they don't make money by caring about each individual user.
honzaik 5 hours ago||
I can't wait to give Google more data about my browsing habits! Seriously, this is insane and everyone who supports this lost the plot.
fireant 12 hours ago||
I don't really get how this stops captcha solving as a service, which is the actual way that scaled recaptcha solving is done? Those things are incredibly cheap and are staffed by humans anyway. Instead of selecting grainy busses, they will just scan the image with their phones.
m463 10 hours ago||
google and cloudflare are becoming the master gatekeepers.

with cloudflare, I cannot use my old browser, I cannot browse many sites without javascript or cookies.

recaptcha? that prevents me from doing business with many sites, let alone browse.

koala-news 3 hours ago||
Feels like we accidentally built a web where proving you’re human now requires approval from 3 different corporations.
mattstir 1 hour ago|
I don't think there's much that's accidental about it. The giant corporations with near-monopolies in web-related markets (browsers, search...) are going to be incentivized to put restrictions in place that protect that monopolistic status. As with other facets of life, they can dress up the changes as "protecting users/kids/etc" and mostly get away with it. The same companies are the ones championing the very technologies that make human attestation more and more necessary.
high_na_euv 6 hours ago||
Why when I open google in private mode then I need to solve 10 captchas?
bigger_fish 11 hours ago||
You mean like the Google login QR I can already bypass with an extension? I'm not sure this is a real step forward in the arms race, and I'm cool with that.
graphememes 17 hours ago|
yeah im not doing that
donmcronald 14 hours ago|
You don’t need to. As long as the dumb majority goes along with it, your options are to capitulate or get locked out of society.
orion7 9 hours ago|||
An increasing percentage of the dumb majority are opting for dumb phones and plenty of people still use laptops, it doesn't have to be anywhere remotely close to a majority for many analytics-obsessed site owners to see the drop in sales and opt for another solution.

In any case, sites using an extremely restrictive mode of recaptcha during ddos attacks will just be one segment of a very fragmented digital future, not society as such

userbinator 13 hours ago|||
Your only option is to sway the "dumb majority" in the other direction.
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