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Is hCaptcha less of a pain for users who block tracking (with Brave, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, etc) than reCaptcha is? I'm not sure I've ever solved an hCaptcha, but I find reCaptchas to routinely be incredibly time-consuming, and I suspect it's because I block their trackers.

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I'm using Brave plus NextDNS, and am on a CG-NAT IPv4 address, so reCaptcha absolutely hates me. I always need to do at least 5 rounds of matching before it'll let me past. My record has been 12 rounds.

hCaptcha seems to pretty consistently only make me do 2 rounds, so I certainly prefer it.

Google reCaptcha likely discriminates against non Chrome users, hCaptcha does not. Also, we support and co-develop https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy-pass !

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