I get slapped in my face with this shit on many many sites and it’s annoys the hell out of me.

I don’t even do anything shady ever. I have scraped a website once. Apart from that I try to use privacy respecting stuff like Firefox with addons. Have cookies delete at the end of the session though I don’t know if it does anything.

I have read that reCaptcha gets easier or harder depending on how Google has profiled you.

Why am I helping train AI models if I am a complete normie?

    • dirtfindr
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      4 years ago

      As a Tor user, the CAPTCHAs from Qwant are frequent enough to be unusable and they’re implemented in a particularly abusive manner. That is, Qwant presents the query page without CAPTCHA every time, thus giving users an opportunity to waste their time as they compose a search query, then after submitting the search query the CAPTCHA manifests.

      It’s a dark pattern. So after the user has invested some effort, the choice is throw away your effort so far or play the CAPTCHA game. If you walk, you’ve helped feed Qwant’s & Microsoft’s analytics and left with no reciprocity in return.

      The CAPTCHA is actually worse than CloudFlare’s. CF uses hCAPTCHA while Qwant-Microsoft uses Google reCAPTCHA (which is more privacy abusive). (corrected- see below)