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Funny story: I can no longer moderate Disqus on my site because it pops up reCaptcha, and I don't even attempt reCaptcha anymore. And I can't ask for support because it pops up reCaptcha. And I can't export my data and delete my account because -- you guessed it -- it pops up reCaptcha.

One of these days I'll gird my loins and go into battle to convince a bot that I'm not a bot. One last time.

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Sometimes it won't accept correct answers either and you're just wasting time training their classifier for minutes. I found the audio challenge to be much faster to get past, so I've started switching to it a couple of months ago, then finally decided to automate it with a browser extension.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

If you manage to force google to serve you the noscript version, it tends to accept correct answers the first time with no re-challenges. The javascript version of recaptcha won't let me through no matter how many times I give it correct answers.

However websites must specifically allow the noscript version to be used; by default it's disabled for all websites.

What do I have to do to force the noscript version to activate? At this point it's getting impossible for me to pass captchas, and the audio challenge is no help since I just get half a word or some other unintelligible utterance.

Sometimes disabling javascript using e.g. umatrix can do it, but only in cases where that website operator has elected to use the most permissive setting (this seems to be rare.)

4channel.org is one site that allows noscript captcha, you can try it out there. But I've rarely seen it possible on other sites.

You're the best.

Use Chrome, create a google account, login, allow all cookies and scripts. Login to disqus. Export your data and delete your account.

Dang. I didn’t realize recapcha depended on being logged in. Dark pattern.

They also punish you for blocking cookies, using first party isolation, fingerprinting resistance, etc. ReCaptcha v2 operates much like ReCaptcha v3 (which does away with the question/answer interrogation entirely) without telling users it works that way. v2 will frequently reject correct answers just to punish users who aren't sucking up to the Google surveillance system.

Is this related to the Google account? Because since switching to firefox and everything not-google I have been constantly harrassed by recaptcha everywhere.

I think it's mostly the google account (and not blocking access to its cookies), but (as an FF user) I feel that just being on FF instead of Chrome is also a strike against you.

> Is this related to the Google account?

It seems so. That's not the only factor but it seems to be strong one.

neat, now we have a test for our anti-google privacy efforts. multiple captcha, good for you! no captcha, not so good...

(in most cases, i just close the tab if i get a captcha challenge-i’m sick and tired of the tracking)

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