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According to the recent Planet Money podcast on Captcha, the upcoming changes will only use the signal of whether or not you have an account, and not any account-based data, since it will be domain based on the website or something.

Also, they're doing away with the questionnaire. It works by using a scoring system or something similar since it loads on the pages leading up to form fills.

Edit: Source for you disbelievers - https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

>reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score for each request without user friction. The score is based on interactions with your site and enables you to take an appropriate action for your site.



> It just "works" by default.

right. until it doesn't, like it wouldn't for someone who actively avoids feeding their personal information to the goog. and it is sounding an awful lot like the fail case is full denial of service, without any option for the user to prove themselves.


>the upcoming changes will only use the signal of whether or not you have an account, and not any account-based data

Recaptcha doesn't care. But totally unrelated, it just accidentally worked out to be awfully convenient for Google's other surveillance products embedded on the same sites, which do care quite a bit about how long and how often they can follow me with a single unique identifier.


You still believe PR fairytales?


And the alternative is believing something else with no evidence. Is that better?




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