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		ve55 on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA I've seen multiple comments suggesting HN uses ReCAPTCHA, but I have never encountered it myself, and I even have Javascript disabled and login through 'anonymous' IPs such as tor, so I'm unsure what these users could be doing that is 'worse' to trigger ReCAPTCHAs. If most users don't even know that ReCAPTCHA is used, that's a good sign that it is being used as little as possible, though.

jimktrains2 on June 12, 2019 | [–]

I wonder if it's from CloudFlare and not HN directly.

briandear on June 12, 2019 | | [–]

It is from Cloudflare. They love reCaptcha. It’s ok to give free user data to Google if it means less work for them.

meruru on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Same here. I only log in through Tor and I'd never have imagined HN uses ReCAPTCHA if it wasn't for people suggesting that.

darkpuma on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Try creating a new account through Tor, there is a good chance you'll see it then.

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