reCAPTCHA doesn't work on Riot/Desktop, so forces you to sign up on Riot/Web

[ssolidus]

Description

When trying to create an account, the captcha appears as [Object object]

Steps to reproduce

• Open Riot desktop client
• Attempt to create an account
• Should produce captcha, instead comes up as [Object object] (see screenshot below)

Log/Screenshots:

Log not available

Version information

• Platform: Desktop
• OS: Windows 7 x64
• Version: 0.12.2

[t3chguy]

What it's trying to say is that robot detection is not available on desktop but obviously failing
I'll take a look

[t3chguy]

The captcha lib doesn't work when the protocol is file:// as it is in Electron

[t3chguy]

Broken error fixed here: matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#1340

[t3chguy]

I will leave this issue open to track the greater issue