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Comment by Belphemur | Hacker News Reader

Latest version of recaptcha doesn't even require any solving.

It just analyse the traffic and give the site owner a score [0.0 - 1.0] on how sure they are the visitor is human.

They don't explain how they calculate the score, but from my usage it's pretty accurate. They suggest to consider at first anything higher than 0.5 to be a human.

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And they also disregard RGPD completely. Maybe OP has strict legal requirements that make using Google's tools a NOGO.

Is that a new version that isn’t in use anywhere yet? Because for me reCaptcha is still a tool that analyses how much they know about you and if you dgaf about privacy, it lets you through.

It came out at the end of 2018. You probably just haven't noticed it because the only visual is a little badge at the bottom right hand corner of the page.

Haven’t seen any site that used reCaptcha that lost it. Any site you know where I could see it?

Here's a random site from builtwith that uses it https://press.priceline.com/

But yeah, it's probably not common for sites to 'upgrade' to v3. Recaptchas are a feature you begrudgingly add and v3 puts the onus on the product to decided what to do when there's a low score, so its pretty different.

Huh. I saw no logo or text referring to recaptcha at all. Yet before I allowed the Google domains for recaptcha, the message did not send. I guess they allowed low scores? Thank you.

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