Ask HN: Avoid ReCAPTCHA on Login Through Tor
I've started getting them when trying to login, and they can take a long time to complete. Sometimes completing one, then clicking login, would just open a new one. Could we get a "I know the risks, don't protect my account" option to avoid this, if we're confident our password is strong enough to withstand brute-forcing, or if we just don't want to give Google free training data? Ideally there would be a way to avoid it even when creating a new account, but I suppose that could put too much strain on moderation.
A second concern is that reCAPTCHA may be used for fingerprinting and deanonymization - I'm not sure how well founded this is, but it would be very consistent with Googles other activities.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadI prefer not to be logged in because I read HN with a small font on my phone and my fat fingers easily vote, unvote, hide etc. when I didn't intend to. So each time I really want to do interact I need to login. That's a no go with the captcha, even if seems to less aggressive settings than on other sites.