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Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google - Ars Technica

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google - Ars Technica

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google - Ars Technica
Sep 28, 2022 59 secs

Now the cloud services company is offering up a free CAPTCHA alternative, Turnstile, available to anyone, Cloudflare customer or not, and specifically calling out Google's role in the existing "prove you're a human" hegemony.

Turnstile utilizes Cloudflare's Managed Challenge system, which takes cues from user behavior, browser data, and, on Apple devices, Private Access Tokens, to distinguish human visitors from bots and scripts.

Turnstile integrations run "a series of small non-interactive JavaScript challenges" to investigate the visitor, including proof of work and space, probing for web APIs, and "various other challenges for detecting browser-quirks and human behavior," Cloudflare's post states.

"Google says they don’t use this information for ad targeting, but at the end of the day, Google is an ad sales company," Cloudflare's post states.

Cloudflare notes that CAPTCHA's ubiquity is one of its strengths, as it has a steady, constantly updated base of solving and behavior data to lean on.

The company, whose reverse proxy services are used by something close to 20 percent of all sites, has been in the news recently for its long debate on dropping hate site Kiwi Farms and deciding not to pull out of Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

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