https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Pressing-play-button-now-requires-Google-recaptcha/m-p/4768663#M65189 <P>Cheers,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>with some more or less recent update to the open.spotify.com player, Spotify stopped working for me (Firefox).<BR />Browsing Spotify works perfectly fine but anytime I press the play button nothing happens, meaning no music is played and the time indicator remains at 0:00.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As it turns out from the console logs and web-player.js, Spotify tries to connect to Google in order to use their recaptcha service to verify I'm not a robot. This does not work because I'm blocking requests to Google while on Spotify.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And to be honest, why shouldn't I?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>My question is, are you planning on keeping this "feature"? Is it really necessary to have recaptcha "verification" on the play button even though a user is logged in?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kind regards,<BR />Markus</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>ps: ffs, even posting this message requires recaptcha &gt;.&lt;</P> Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:53:58 GMT teebecher 2019-06-15T21:53:58Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Pressing-play-button-now-requires-Google-recaptcha/m-p/4768663#M65189 <P>Cheers,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>with some more or less recent update to the open.spotify.com player, Spotify stopped working for me (Firefox).<BR />Browsing Spotify works perfectly fine but anytime I press the play button nothing happens, meaning no music is played and the time indicator remains at 0:00.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As it turns out from the console logs and web-player.js, Spotify tries to connect to Google in order to use their recaptcha service to verify I'm not a robot. This does not work because I'm blocking requests to Google while on Spotify.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And to be honest, why shouldn't I?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>My question is, are you planning on keeping this "feature"? Is it really necessary to have recaptcha "verification" on the play button even though a user is logged in?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kind regards,<BR />Markus</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>ps: ffs, even posting this message requires recaptcha &gt;.&lt;</P> Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:53:58 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Pressing-play-button-now-requires-Google-recaptcha/m-p/4768663#M65189 teebecher 2019-06-15T21:53:58Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Pressing-play-button-now-requires-Google-recaptcha/m-p/4912397#M69133 I can see the same at my browser console.<BR /><BR /> Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:07:40 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Pressing-play-button-now-requires-Google-recaptcha/m-p/4912397#M69133 wellington1993 2020-03-13T22:07:40Z