> it feels like Google's entire strategy behind reCaptcha is to make it harder to protect your privacy
For the irony, I'm still logged into GMail and it still works perfectly, as basic HTML, even with google.com forbidden to run scripts. But it's the flippin' reCaptchas all over the place that make me temp-allow google.com, and then a reload later, temp-allow gstatic.com and reload again. Only then I get to use someone else's site normally, and I can disallow again... it's irritating. And then, this.
BTW that page plainly says the scores are samples and not related to reality. Refresh a few times and watch it change. 0.3, 0.7, and 0.9 seem to be my lucky numbers. I see everyone else getting those and 0.1.
Please stop reading things into it oh it's too late. Maybe they suddenly started seeing this page hundreds of times in the referrer and added that bit afterward, I don't know.
Dunno if it's changed recently or if I just didn't refresh enough before, but I'm now seeing basically random numbers as well.
If anyone wants a fun weekend project, I would love for there to be a few public sites I can reliably check my production score on.
I'm not sure it matters though, since I'm just ignoring most sites that use reCaptcha now. For sites I can't ignore, I've taken to emailing them with my requests instead -- recently I tried to use Spotify's internal data export tool and it wouldn't let me past. If you're not going to let me use a website to manage my existing account, then your support team can do it for me.
For the irony, I'm still logged into GMail and it still works perfectly, as basic HTML, even with google.com forbidden to run scripts. But it's the flippin' reCaptchas all over the place that make me temp-allow google.com, and then a reload later, temp-allow gstatic.com and reload again. Only then I get to use someone else's site normally, and I can disallow again... it's irritating. And then, this.
BTW that page plainly says the scores are samples and not related to reality. Refresh a few times and watch it change. 0.3, 0.7, and 0.9 seem to be my lucky numbers. I see everyone else getting those and 0.1.
Please stop reading things into it oh it's too late. Maybe they suddenly started seeing this page hundreds of times in the referrer and added that bit afterward, I don't know.