Hello everyone. I have recently registered onto the forum and had a hard time doing it.
I use Noscript addon on firefox browser.
So I enabled all LQ related sites when registering with this forum. But I 'forbid' all google related sites because I thought they weren't relevant.

However, registration would not complete because a captcha wasn't appearing to prove I wasn't a robot.
So after enabling about 4 google sites on NoScript, a captcha eventually appeared which I completed for the LQ registration.
Registration was then successful.

I would like to know why LQ depends on a google service before registering members.
Secondly, the google captcha appears on the same page where I've entered 1. my username, 2. my password and 3. my personal legit email address.
I might as well give google my phone number, home address and passport number!

How do I know google hasn't taken a record of the above sensitive data?
Also, is LQ committed (under the Patriot Act, for example) to allow google to 'check your papers' before registering?

We've used reCAPTCHA long before it was a Google service. That said, absolutely no data personal data is passed to the service at any time.

--jeremy

That is so good to know!

Just at the point where I present username, password and personal email address - that is exactly the point where 'absolutely no data personal data is passed to the service at any time'.

I feel so reassured! Yet I wonder if others feel the same way?

Thank you Jeremy..... Will be using this site a lot!!!!!