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by ACCount37 223 days ago
It's a known "issue" of reCaptcha, and many other systems like it. If it thinks you're a bot, it will "fail" the first few correct solves before it lets you through.

The worst offenders will just loop you forever, no matter how many solves you get right.
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Alex2037 223 days ago
stock Chrome logged into a Google account = definitely not a bot. here, click a few fire hydrants and come on in :^)

I sincerely wish all the folx at Google directly responsible for this particular user acquisition strategy to get every cancer available in California.

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varenc 223 days ago
I would think that when you're viewing recaptcha on a site, if you have 3rd party cookies disabled the embedded recaptcha script won't have anyway of connecting you with your Google account, even if you're logged in. At least that's how disabling 3rd party cookies is supposed to work.
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michaelt 223 days ago
Of course, if you have 3rd party cookies disabled, Google would never link your recaptcha activity to your Google account.

They just link it to your IP address, browser, operating system, screen resolution, set of fonts, plugins, timezone, mouse movements, GPU, number of CPU cores, and of course the fact you've got third party cookies disabled.

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varenc 223 days ago
Isn't Chrome shifting to blocking 3rd party cookies by default? If that's the new default than the default behavior would be that being logged into Google isn't used as a signal for recaptcha
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imcritic 222 days ago
Do you really think they won't make a hidden whitelist for their own domains?
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varenc 222 days ago
There'd be no way to hide this. If 3rd party cookies are disabled it's trivial to observe if an embedded google.com iframe is sending my full google.com 1st party cookies in violation of the 3rd party cookie settings. There's no pinky promises involved, you can just check what it's sending with a MITM proxy.

I'm sure they're doing other sketchy things but wouldn't make sense to lie in such a blindingly obvious way. (I just tested it, and indeed, it works as expected)

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Tostino 223 days ago
"Oh, that's interesting...there is one other user that matches all of that metadata"
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