lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoOnly approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternativescybernews.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1550arrow-down15cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.worldpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
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minus-squareFG_3479@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoA standard Firefox is not private and is easily fingerprintable. Those settings give you good privacy but won’'t make most captchas fail.
minus-squareJesus_666@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoI am perfectly aware that these settings aren’t very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn’t get past hCaptcha.
A standard Firefox is not private and is easily fingerprintable. Those settings give you good privacy but won’'t make most captchas fail.
I am perfectly aware that these settings aren’t very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn’t get past hCaptcha.