Yeah I’m not saying hCaptcha is good. It just shows that new captcha systems can become popular, and that Google’s hold isn’t as strong as it may seem.

Private Lock also hasn’t been updated for four years :(

hCaptcha is catching on pretty quickly.

Does it say that both the front end and back end are proprietary, or just the back end? I’d be fine with a closed source back end

No third-party services

Support for alternative routing

(following link)

alternative routing requires us to use third-party infrastructure and networks we do not control

huh

I do think it’s desirable. It’s unnecessary for users to keep track of which tool is best for which purpose if one tool can do it all. There’s no reason why one tool wouldn’t be able to; even in the worst case it could just automatically choose the best tool to answer your prompt, saving you the trouble of doing so.

A single tool isn’t going to meet all those needs yet

doesn’t want to mess with what she is familiar with

That does make change difficult.

why would a noun have a past tense

I hope someone forks this and creates an i2p browser, similar to the Tor browser.

The benefit of using a seperate app instead of custom configured hardening is that (1) your hardening auto updates and (2) you’re less prone to fingerprinting. Also it’s easier.