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Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives (cybernews.com)
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's almost every time for me. Maybe they don't like my ad blocker or my browser's privacy settings but it's rare for hCaptcha to let me through after three or four repetitions.

Usually I give up after ten because of it won't let me in by then it won't let me in after a hundred. I tried.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It should work if you use a Firefox based browser with tracking protection set to strict and resistFingerprinting disabled, then use Jshelter with the following settings.

    • Locally rendered images: Little lies
    • Locally generated audio: Little lies
    • WebAssembly speed-up: Enabled
    • Everything else including Fingerprint Detector disabled

    Then visit fingerprint.com in a normal window, then visit it again in private mode with a VPN or with a dufferent server selected. You will see that the ID is different both times which proves that you're protected.

    As for the adblocker, just use uBlock Origin with the Quick Fixes list disabled as it may shadowban YouTube comments because their bot protection is silent.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    A standard Firefox is not private and is easily fingerprintable. Those settings give you good privacy but won''t make most captchas fail.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You said "Firefox derivative" so resistFingerprinting may be enabled and WebGL blocked. If you're talking about Librewolf, you should turn those off, then use Jshelter to get the non-breaking protection back.

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