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I wish Hacker News didn't use it. It's a PITA logging in! I don't see it when I'm in the U.S. but when I'm overseas...

• shakna 7y ago
  From a French IP that usually gets flagged by everybody as potentially a robot, I see exactly 0 JS on the HN login form. Are you sure it is HN that uses ReCAPTCHA?
  • ve55 7y ago
    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 7y ago
      I wonder if it's from CloudFlare and not HN directly.
      • briandear 7y ago
        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 7y ago
      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 7y ago
        Try creating a new account through Tor, there is a good chance you'll see it then.
  • baroffoos 7y ago
    I have seen it sometimes.
  • hombre_fatal 7y ago
    I've seen it before. In fact, I'd double checked last time I brought it up and it was there on /login in an incognito tab. Either HN has changed or they now conditionally load it. For example, I encountered it every time I used Tor on HN, though I haven't hit /login in months.
    • shakna 7y ago
      Perhaps it's Cloudflare, and not HN directly.
    • meruru 7y ago
      I only login through Tor and I never encounter it.