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Fixed typo. Removed inappropriate tag.
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edit approved Jan 20, 2023 at 12:44
toolic
edit approved Jan 20, 2023 at 12:44
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StackoverflowStack Overflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need?, api.recaptcha.net should be whitelisted. However, in reality it seems that www.google.com needs to be whitelisted, which also results in having the search engine available, obviously. It can be tested by visiting https://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha and using Developer Tools to view the network trace (see screenshot below).

As we sometimes administer programming exams, StackoverflowStack Overflow is allowed to be used as a resource to resolve certain issues, but having the Google search engine - with all its addionaladditional features - available is a bridge too far.

I'm posting this here to accomplish one of two things (hopefully the first):

  1. Is it possible to have a captcha system that does not rely on www.google.com?
  2. OR could the documentation be corrected (which does not help us any further, but at least the documentation is correct).

See the Network tab of Developer tools to have a list of the domains that are being used:   

Screenshot of Chrome developer tools showing that www.google.com and www.gstatic.com are being used for the captcha.

Stackoverflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need?, api.recaptcha.net should be whitelisted. However, in reality it seems that www.google.com needs to be whitelisted, which also results in having the search engine available, obviously. It can be tested by visiting https://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha and using Developer Tools to view the network trace (see screenshot below).

As we sometimes administer programming exams, Stackoverflow is allowed to be used as a resource to resolve certain issues, but having the Google search engine - with all its addional features - available is a bridge too far.

I'm posting this here to accomplish one of two things (hopefully the first):

  1. Is it possible to have a captcha system that does not rely on www.google.com?
  2. OR could the documentation be corrected (which does not help us any further, but at least the documentation is correct).

See the Network tab of Developer tools to have a list of the domains that are being used:  Screenshot of Chrome developer tools showing that www.google.com and www.gstatic.com are being used for the captcha.

Stack Overflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need?, api.recaptcha.net should be whitelisted. However, in reality it seems that www.google.com needs to be whitelisted, which also results in having the search engine available, obviously. It can be tested by visiting https://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha and using Developer Tools to view the network trace (see screenshot below).

As we sometimes administer programming exams, Stack Overflow is allowed to be used as a resource to resolve certain issues, but having the Google search engine - with all its additional features - available is a bridge too far.

I'm posting this here to accomplish one of two things (hopefully the first):

  1. Is it possible to have a captcha system that does not rely on www.google.com?
  2. OR could the documentation be corrected (which does not help us any further, but at least the documentation is correct).

See the Network tab of Developer tools to have a list of the domains that are being used: 

Screenshot of Chrome developer tools showing that www.google.com and www.gstatic.com are being used for the captcha.

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Allard
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Captcha's from another domain than documented?

Stackoverflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need?, api.recaptcha.net should be whitelisted. However, in reality it seems that www.google.com needs to be whitelisted, which also results in having the search engine available, obviously. It can be tested by visiting https://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha and using Developer Tools to view the network trace (see screenshot below).

As we sometimes administer programming exams, Stackoverflow is allowed to be used as a resource to resolve certain issues, but having the Google search engine - with all its addional features - available is a bridge too far.

I'm posting this here to accomplish one of two things (hopefully the first):

  1. Is it possible to have a captcha system that does not rely on www.google.com?
  2. OR could the documentation be corrected (which does not help us any further, but at least the documentation is correct).

See the Network tab of Developer tools to have a list of the domains that are being used: Screenshot of Chrome developer tools showing that www.google.com and www.gstatic.com are being used for the captcha.