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A standard Firefox is not private and is easily fingerprintable. Those settings give you good privacy but won''t make most captchas fail.
I am perfectly aware that these settings aren't very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn't get past hCaptcha.
You said "Firefox derivative" so resistFingerprinting may be enabled and WebGL blocked. If you're talking about Librewolf, you should turn those off, then use Jshelter to get the non-breaking protection back.