Why is Google Captcha not an invasion of privacy?

Herb Wetherell shared this question ago

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I'm considering using mailbox.org and a large reason for this is to get away from Google and their ability to know who I am and what I'm writing.

So can someone explain how using Google Captcha at the outset of setting up one's account will not permit Google to then know I'm getting a mailbox account under a specific name, and my info they've acquired so far cannot be associated with the account I'm setting up?

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mailbox.org Support ●

Hi and thank you very much for your questions.

We have been using Google Captcha in some instances in the past during - and only during - the registration process, but we are not using it anymore. We are now using Friendly Captcha.

With kind regards

your mailbox.org team

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Peer Heinlein [mailbox.org] ●

Sorry, to my team - I might be wrong, but as far as I know we still do have Google Catchas in some rare cases as a fallback. We use it sometimes for IP addresses coming from outside of Europe where we need some additional security to protect us against abusive account registrations.

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mailbox.org Support ●

Hi Peer,

thank you for your comment. We just spoke to the developer-team and according to them we are not using Google Captcha at all anymore. There are is still a JavaScript function in the HTML-source-code of the registration page regarding the Google Captcha, but the function is not being used. Our developers will delete the function as soon as possible.

Cheers

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