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judge2020 on June 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

ReCaptcha blocks (or deters) an extraordinarily larger percentage of bots than it does to humans by far.

modzu on June 11, 2019 [–]

of course it does. so does an automatic ban. that's precisely not the issue.

i think you probably meant to say recaptcha allows an extraordinarily large number of humans compared to false positives? because that would be the relevant metric. you sure about that one?

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