In early 2020, Cloudflare switched from Google’s reCAPTCHA to Intuition Machines’ hCaptcha. It was a business decision – although CF made a ridiculously hypocritical attempt to excuse the switch as a moral imperative. hCaptcha is much less expensive for CF than the Google alternative, but hCaptcha provides a lesser user experience. The CF community was – and remains – unhappy about the switch.
In the latest twist, the People in Charge (PIC) at CF have decided to blame *all* CAPTCHAs for the community’s dissatisfaction. The solution, the CF PIC assure us, is to bully all interweb users into purchasing an expensive physical plug-in security key that obliterates the last remaining vestiges of interweb privacy. Not sure what the out-of-touch elitists are smoking at CF’s gilded Silicon Valley palace (maybe the smoke is what makes the cloud flare) – but that idea ain’t gonna fly.
