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People care about being able to consume information in ways that works for them.

I don't have time to read white papers (nor am I very good at it), but want to know what they consist of. I also want to take my dog for a walk which is hard to do while staring at a screen. This, and other tools like it are useful in achieving that.

Fantastic, thank you for the great input! Really appreciate you taking the time to look through it and give honest feedback.

Totally agree on most of that, I'll add it to my checklist!

Just pushed up a quick change to the app. If you have a moment to try the login again, I'd love to see if I fixed your issue. Thanks for giving it a shot!

Thank you much! I'll try to repro on my end.

You're not the first person to say that; I do need some basic info though in order to keep in touch so this was a quick way to get that info. But agree, I intend on making a public view and people can join if they want (and then create possibly)

Huh, thank you! I've been fighting with google auth for a bit now and may just drop it. i'll look into that, thanks!

What browser did you use? Did the google workflow complete at least?

Good call on the meeting idea, especially for folks who aren't in the same org / can't see each others schedules for example.

Google's reCaptcha code seemed to be very keen on knowing my 'cadence' or the way I used my mouse and how quickly (or how slow) I completed the captcha. It also looked at things like timezone, screen resolution, battery charge level etc So they could determine if it was 'you' who was using the captcha, soon after, in a separate session (even on a different device!)

I'd bet a good amount that they store that along with all the other personally identifying info they have on you (and google of course has a massive amount of that); which is basically why after a single reCAPTCHA solve, you wont see them prompt you again for ages - they know who you are.

Disclaimer: I've been an engineer at hCaptcha for a few years now building out the service. I'm just as interested in you as hearing about customer and user success/pain stories!

Worth noting that this title is primarily due to Cloudflare having switched to them from ReCAPTCHA, and Cloudflare is... well, relatively popular, to say the least.

That's definitely a part of it, but we also have a number of other large sites and services that use hCaptcha to protect against bots, and more that get added every day because of our more advanced bot detection special sauce.

I'm curious what kind of data may exist on the experience of switching for larger providers; do the users like it? how much more/less time do they spend solving? do they care, let alone even notice that it's not Google's ReCAPTCHA?

From what we've seen, the integration process is generally smooth, especially if you're a previous reCAPTCHA user, since we keep the interface and workflow largely the same.

Solving is roughly the same although we have a number of other protections that irritate bot maintainers and get activated when we detect them.

Not sure if the majority of people are aware of the change, I'm sure some technically savvy people pick up on it more than not.

Regardless, as ReCAPTCHA is not only terribly annoying but also built for surveillance from the ground up, I still view this as a good improvement.

That's actually one the top reasons we've had a lot of customers come over to us; we put a heavy emphasis on user privacy / security, including adopting/supporting privacy-preserving protocols (PrivacyPass, Tor), and minimal retention of data (see our data privacy policy on our site).

Familiar with email aliases (ie user+words@gmail.com)? Easy to have infinite addresses and yet a single mailbox with automations upon receiving the confirmations.