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PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-05-05 · latest 2026-09-26

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  1. …/ IP is being abused by bots so they are in the splash damage range of the bot checkers. [1] https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/68
    comment by thephyber · 2026-09-26 · in CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)
  2. …since v3, but uses proprietary network host information from Google. See this issue opened in 2018: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/235
    comment by curtisblaine · 2025-06-25 · in Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet
  3. …the site to reload Google's recaptcha multiple times I forgot to mention that it is not a bug. See https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/335 for example (I believe there are others issues like this in the repo)
    comment by cobby · 2021-08-28 · in Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
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    Ask HN: Google Captchas on HN
    story by auslander · 2019-09-16 · 6 comments
  5. …test shown in the video you won't find it 100% repeatable just because you're using Firefox. [1] https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268#issuecomment-...
    comment by michaelt · 2019-06-10 · in Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
  6. …to see how the behavior change with different settings and extensions, you can see the result here: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268#issuecomment-... I solved the problem by using an extension that toggle that flag:…
    comment by matteopey · 2019-06-10 · in Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
  7. …error. It's probably some clever JS or CSS that got a bug in it. Here's the official thread on GH: https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/268 Disclaimer: We built a solution at SerpApi.com to solve those offline using ML. Timing of…
    comment by hartator · 2019-06-10 · in Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
  8. …occasionally hopeless what to do. Especially when there’s no apparent reason for the low score. Eg https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/248
    comment by gingerlime · 2019-04-14 · in Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning
  9. ▲ 22
    Fuck reCaptcha (2018)
    story by jraph · 2019-02-14 · 9 comments
  10. ▲ 1
    Why Isn't Google's ReCaptcha 'Responsive'?
    story by goldhand · 2016-05-05 · 0 comments