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The more I protect my personal data (hi, GDPR!), the more websites are adding recaptacha to all their pages.

Blocking trackers makes Google suspicious, so they're adding more and more recaptcha challenges to let me pass their tests, sometimes 5 to 10 in a row. I'm now working for Google's IA for free just to be able to make purchases online, access some services that I already paid for, or filling in support request forms (sometimes it's for websites operated by local communities and funded by tax payers).

I have absolutely no control over what Google does with all my recaptcha inputs, it could be to build a fleet of autonomous cars (that could end up killing the public transportation in my city), or improving an algorithms that helps drones identify targets during a social unrest (could be a future me).

Just because I want my privacy rights to be respected to the minimum (just don't track me for political/advertising purposes), I have to spend several minutes of my day working for Google and help them make money on advertising and sell AI to governments.

How dystopian.

> that could end up killing the public transportation in my city

Don't forget that public transportation can also be self driving and it will be cheaper than riding in a self driving car. So I don't expect public transportation killed, I expect self driving buses.

Use Buster captha solver addon

Thanks for recommending Buster (author here), but I think the right solution is to encourage people to stand up against Google's abuse, especially because they are working on making reCAPTCHA even more pervasive an inescapable.

The recommended way of integrating reCAPTCHA v3 is to load it on every page of your site, not just on pages with forms. Given the popularity of this service, reCAPTCHA v3 is set to become a browsing history and behavioral data collector on a global scale.

What is the rationale for recommending reCAPTCHA on every page of a site??

Blocking scrapers?

So that they can watch your interactions with the site to confirm that you do it in a “normal” way, nevermind that this discriminates against those with disabilities.

They want to monitor your behavior (mouse movements, clicks, etc) site-wide so they can determine whether you're a bot before you get to the "protected" page. So the carrot for the website owner is that people that don't want to solve "click all the stop signs in these 9 pictures" challenges don't abandon your forms because they're never challenged, at the expense of adding behavioral tracking site-wide.

Has been said many times before but the problem is that you look like any other bot that also doesn't save cookies or have any past history. How do you expect recaptcha to identify you from those bots? Or more, how do you expect the websites to identify bots and stop things like credential stuffing attacks (even if recaptcha isn't perfect at stopping those either) without heavily investing in things like the anti-bot systems banks use?

I don't know, and at this point, I don't care.

Sites have brought this sort of thing on themselves by enabling (or directly engaging in) the abuse of users. That abuse forces me to take a very defensive posture when browsing the web. It's simply a matter of self defense.

If that means that I can't access the sites, whether it's because of recaptcha or other issues, then I won't access the sites. Easy.

You could try Buster. It's an addon that solved Captchas when you tell it to.

How well does it work?

does anyone have a script to keep triggering captchas and then providing[flood] the most wrong, and disruptive answer possible until ?

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