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Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’ve had a captcha solver browser extension for as long as captchas existed. Anyone believing reCaptcha’s claim that it was ever about bot prevention is a goddamn moron

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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
reCapatcha exists soley for two reasons

Free labor to train statistical models

Punishing people who use VPNs, noscript, etc.
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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s about making headless bots unreasonably expensive to make massive requests with.

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ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Which one do you use? I’ve used a handful over the years and they all stop working for me.

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- Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Currently it’s Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans (chromium)
  
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  - ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Awesome, thanks! I’ll give that a shot. Although I use Firefox so I’ll have to see if they make it for non chromium.
    
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