Mattermost and Element have both expressed concerns with hCaptcha, and I found a summary of one in a Github issue here: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/13905#issuecomment-605627370
Tl;dr hCaptcha isn’t exactly the free reCaptcha service many people think it is. It has it’s own bag of privacy and effectiveness issues.
Agree, its still fully proprietary, not accessible, and has a “dude trust me” license, so we don’t use it in lemmy.
Which is which? I guess reCaptcha is the one which uses us to train Google’s AI to identify roadside features?
ReCaptcha is owned by google indeed, hCaptcha is a privacy friendly captcha. https://www.hcaptcha.com/
I’m sure you’re right that hCaptcha doesn’t have plenty of the Google-associated privacy problems, but it’s possible that hCaptcha has its “own bag of privacy and effectiveness issues”?
I got a reCaptcha at rewards confirmation or something I believe.
Thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out next time I login!
I’d love to see a captcha based on drawing your interpretation of a three-word randomly generated text.
I think you could never teach a robot to do that in a way a human would find convincing.
