Remember Chrome sends a lot of information about the user

Remember, I use the equivalent of Bromite on Android and Brave on the desktop. Those are not Chrome: they're heavily privacy enhanced. By your theory, those browsers too should serve you more annoying reCAPTCHA more often, just like Firefox. But they don't: even on those privacy-respecting Chromium forks, you can get past reCAPTCHA much easier.

I use Firefox exclusively and don’t have anywhere near as many issues as you seem to.

Try using Chromium side by side and the subtle extra difficulties of sailing through the Googlespace become quite apparent. As long as you stick to Firefox, you don't realize that the Chromium experience is ever-so-slightly slicker on many websites.

You're most likely logged into the browser with your Google account in Chrome. I'm sure they take that into account as well.

In my mind, getting caprcha’d is a good thing. It may mean google has low confidence that it knows who I am.

That is possibly the most unique outlook I've read about today.

There's nothing good about captchas: it's an insult to human intelligence, it's forced unpair labor and each time I get one, I want to murder someone.

In a normal world, your statement would be utterly insane. But in our dystopian surveillance economy society, it's actually a rational and interesting point of view, and one that turns captchas into a useful indicator of how well you manage to evade said corporate surveillance.

Interesting. Thank you for that.

However, If you're right and Googles serves fewer captchas to those they can track better and not just those who run Chromium as I suspect, it also means privacy-enhanced Chromium-based browsers don't hold a candle to Firefox. That's not great news considering Chromium is the new de-factor standard and some websites only work okay in Chromium.

It's probably enhanced tracking protection you're talking about. I keep it on as well but damn those captchas are annoying. I'd prefer to go back to the unreadable distorted text over the endless AI training ones.

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Can absolutely confirm this

So, if I want to access a website, google has to collect a record about me, and only if the fucking company approve my past behavior I can access the site. Of course if I don't have any past records I can't (easily?) access the website. Simply awesome.

Google’s ReCaptcha in version 3 works in the background. Instead of displaying images of crosswalks and such, it uses a kind of risk score.

This doesn't factor in in my case: I only enable Google scripts to pass the reCAPTCHA. They are not enabled before or after, either on Firefox or Chromium. So in theory, regardless of the browser, Google should have no way ot tracking my behavior in the background - or if they do, the amount of tracking should be identical.

No VPN. I hit those websites from work or from my work cellphone.

Google doesn’t like things that make the user less identifiable, so they strike back however they can without it being too obvious.

I reckon so too.

And also, I believe they coax people into adopting Chrome or Chromium-based browsers by making alternatives harder or more annoying to use, so that the browser landscape eventually becomes a monoculture they can control. Once Gecko-based browsers are finally extinct, they'll go after the Chromium forks.

I have to do a captcha on basically every cloudflare site with my VPN on.

I never see them because I do not use google services for anything.

You don't have to use Google services to get served Google captchas. The sites you want to visit do it for you and foist them on you.

The reason why you don't see reCAPTCHAs is because you don't have to visit sites that use reCAPTCHAs.