It has long been known that open public wifi ( such as at airports ) heavily impacts the reCAPTCHA score. There are tons of perfectly plausible technical explanations that could explain what happened, and none of them involve any sort of preference solely because Chrome was used. On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM Kevin Tillery via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
You're being silly about it, but this is the core of anti-trust. You can't enter two different markets with two products and make sure they work better with each other than with any other product in the opposite market.
Or rather, you can, but it's illegal and the government is meant to come after you. Of course, the government hasn't been enforcing this for decades, ever since it was bought by companies that do this.
On 06/02/2026 16:04, Tom Beecher via NANOG wrote:
I can't help but notice that Chrome works. It's your _competitor_ Firefox that you don't seem to like.
A company's product sends more signals back that can streamline usage of the same company's services? What's next? Dogs and cats living together.. mass hysteria!!
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM William Herrin via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
I'm at SEATAC airport trying to access www.google.com via the public wifi with Firefox. Apparently you really don't like that because it's stuck in a Recaptcha loop displaying captcha after captcha after captcha.
I can't help but notice that Chrome works. It's your _competitor_ Firefox that you don't seem to like.
IP address: 198.134.98.50 Time: 2026-02-05T20:03:35Z URL: https://www.google.com/
FIx it, eh?
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