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by rfoo 2261 days ago
On the other hand, their new HCAPTCHA is a notorious PITA for anyone, including those whose browser is Chrome and keep cookies.

Browsing an "I'm under attack"-mode website behind Cloudflare has been super annoying for me since last week. To the point that I usually close the page when I see a HCAPTCHA. Their visual challenge is harder to navigate than reCAPTCHA, and because this is their business model I suspect they have incentive to make it easier.
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heinrich5991 2261 days ago
Why do you assume that a good CAPTCHA should positively discriminate Chrome users?
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rfoo 2260 days ago
I don't. I assume a good CAPTCHA should reduce the size of the subset of users who must solve hard challenges as possible. The old reCAPTCHA usually requires only one click, no visual challenge for me. I don't like the fact this is because I use Chrome and logged in my Google account, but with HCAPTCHA I'm just not seeing any chance they make the experience better, no matter what browser I use, they just don't want to make my experience better, their business model is based on me suffering.
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