[tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

John Pinkman john.pinkman at yandex.com
Tue Sep 16 01:09:31 UTC 2014


> Using TBB, I've noticed a LOT more captchas in the last couple months -
> just to view the front page, or see the page linked from a search
> through StartPage or Ixquick.
> Some of the same sites presenting captchas in TBB, I tested in Firefox
> (31, 32) & did not get a captcha.  But, I didn't repeat that test on
> hundreds of sites.

Google cookie is also being installed, and now google will be tracking the tor users who hit this captcha. Even though they aren't google customers, and never agreed to their TOS. I didn't see any consent form there.

John


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