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by KCUOJJQJ 2260 days ago
I just tried it on a website that uses Cloudflare and that always asks me to solve a captcha. (I guess this website does this if the user has a foreign IP address.) In the past I managed to get the non-script Recaptcha. But I don't see a non-script Hcaptcha. I'm a little afraid of possible browser fingerprinting scripts. If there was an unwaivable, enforced right to privacy I wouldn't be afraid.

Also, I don't want to solve any script captchas anymore because of a traumatic experience with script Recaptcha. I had a portable Chromium with login cookies for a few websites. I didn't use that Chromium for other websites than these few. Suddenly, one service almost always demanded a new login after just 1 day. On each login I had to solve a script Recaptcha. I didn't find a way to get non-script Recaptcha. According to the service evil spambots had attacked it. Once, Recaptcha let me solve captchas for minutes, just to eventually tell me I was a bot. I had an IP of a large internet provider. I deleted cookies, got a VPN IP, tried it again, worked on the captchas in the exact same way as before and managed to log in to my account. A website operator wrote in a forum thread that Recaptcha was the only solution to the bot problem. One user suggested "email login as an optional alternative". This was not implemented, because apparently Recaptcha was really specifically the only solution. I then switched to another service, which cost me a few hours of work. This traumatic experience has made me completely unwilling to solve any script captcha.