The end of innocence: HN login now using reCAPTCHA

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August 2019 "We turned it on temporarily because HN was under attack by an account-stealing botnet. Obviously we don't leave it on any longer than we have to. We also are happy to put anyone's username on a whitelist, as the people who emailed us found out." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783482

Why anybody might need to still HN accounts?

I don't see it

Are you behind VPN/Tor?

Thanks for taking time to share your experience!

I'm using Firefox Focus on Android over cellular internet in the US.

IIRC I may have fat fingered an invalid password once.

Motivation to grab the auth cookie for future-proofing, I guess.

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