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Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

61 points by luu 8y ago

cbluth 8y ago
Thanks for this! I am also very irritated when they disable paste in password fields. Enough to drive me batty.
- heyoni 8y ago
  There’s an extension called “don’t fuck with paste” on chrome for that.
  - RunningDroid 7y ago
    It's also available for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...
mamon 8y ago
Doesn't that mean that Captcha as a concept has run its course? Original idea was that humans are better at this kind of tasks than machines, but it seems it's other way around now.
- hoffs 8y ago
  Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images.
  - vageli 8y ago
    > Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images. Neither can blind people. I think there would be legal repercussions (in the US at least) if Google effectively walled off the internet to visually impaired people.
Proven 8y ago
Oh, thank god. Installing this on all my browsers ASAP.
A2017U1 8y ago
As a long term user I really don't want this to become popular and inevitably crushed. Let it flourish in the shadows.
- ferdek 8y ago
  Shhh.... don't upvote this submission ;)
bruhmoment 8y ago
The modern implementation of reCaptcha is quite possibly the worst plague of the internet. If you're using Tor or any non chrom*-based browser, you're out of luck. Piece of garbage really should have been decommissioned by now.
- od1nos 8y ago
  Exactly, when I'm on firefox with PRF on it won't even allow me to attempt the audio captcha. I don't see how this add-on works for anyone with even the most basic tracking protection.
  - peteretep 8y ago
    > I don't see how this add-on works for anyone with even the most basic tracking protection. I believe I have pretty good tracking protection and it's been working fine for me.
  - vezycash 8y ago
    I have the full tracking protection on Firefox and it works perfectly. Before I found the extension on HN a few months ago, I hated recaptcha. Every site using cloudflare was pain in the ass. Not only does it make 1-click validations possible, it slashes the number of recaptcha requests (for me). It's only failed me once. Google said I was using automates captcha solvers. Went offline for a while and voila.
miyuru 8y ago
I think this is based on paper by University of Maryland [1] It uses the same concept to solve recaptcha[2] [1] http://uncaptcha.cs.umd.edu/papers/uncaptcha_woot17.pdf http://uncaptcha.cs.umd.edu/papers/uncaptcha_woot17.pdf [2] https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2/blob/master/README.md
dessant 8y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the extension. If you have some experience with machine learning and you'd like to contribute to the project, please get in touch by opening an issue. The long-term goal is to sample the user's behavior and maintain an offline model for mouse movements and keyboard navigation. Highlighting likely matches in the visual challenge should also be possible to aid people with disabilities, when they are blocked from accessing the audio challenge [1]. [1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25
Moter8 8y ago
My take on this: The only thing this will do is make Google either remove the audio captchas or make them super difficult to solve, even for us humans.
- chatmasta 8y ago
  Is there some ADA regulation that requires them to include audio captcha for users with disability?
miki123211 8y ago
This might be so huge for accessibility. I know, that's what audio captchas are for, but, dear Google, not everyone speaks English, you know?
osharav 7y ago
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." --Steven Wright

61 points by luu 8y ago

cbluth 8y ago

Thanks for this! I am also very irritated when they disable paste in password fields. Enough to drive me batty.

heyoni 8y ago
There’s an extension called “don’t fuck with paste” on chrome for that.
- RunningDroid 7y ago
  It's also available for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...

mamon 8y ago

Doesn't that mean that Captcha as a concept has run its course? Original idea was that humans are better at this kind of tasks than machines, but it seems it's other way around now.

hoffs 8y ago
Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images.
- vageli 8y ago
  > Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images. Neither can blind people. I think there would be legal repercussions (in the US at least) if Google effectively walled off the internet to visually impaired people.

Proven 8y ago

Oh, thank god. Installing this on all my browsers ASAP.

A2017U1 8y ago

As a long term user I really don't want this to become popular and inevitably crushed. Let it flourish in the shadows.

ferdek 8y ago
Shhh.... don't upvote this submission ;)

bruhmoment 8y ago

The modern implementation of reCaptcha is quite possibly the worst plague of the internet. If you're using Tor or any non chrom*-based browser, you're out of luck. Piece of garbage really should have been decommissioned by now.

od1nos 8y ago
Exactly, when I'm on firefox with PRF on it won't even allow me to attempt the audio captcha. I don't see how this add-on works for anyone with even the most basic tracking protection.
- peteretep 8y ago
  > I don't see how this add-on works for anyone with even the most basic tracking protection. I believe I have pretty good tracking protection and it's been working fine for me.
- vezycash 8y ago
  I have the full tracking protection on Firefox and it works perfectly. Before I found the extension on HN a few months ago, I hated recaptcha. Every site using cloudflare was pain in the ass. Not only does it make 1-click validations possible, it slashes the number of recaptcha requests (for me). It's only failed me once. Google said I was using automates captcha solvers. Went offline for a while and voila.

miyuru 8y ago

I think this is based on paper by University of Maryland [1] It uses the same concept to solve recaptcha[2] [1] http://uncaptcha.cs.umd.edu/papers/uncaptcha_woot17.pdf http://uncaptcha.cs.umd.edu/papers/uncaptcha_woot17.pdf [2] https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2/blob/master/README.md

dessant 8y ago

Hi, I'm the author of the extension. If you have some experience with machine learning and you'd like to contribute to the project, please get in touch by opening an issue. The long-term goal is to sample the user's behavior and maintain an offline model for mouse movements and keyboard navigation. Highlighting likely matches in the visual challenge should also be possible to aid people with disabilities, when they are blocked from accessing the audio challenge [1]. [1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25

Moter8 8y ago

My take on this: The only thing this will do is make Google either remove the audio captchas or make them super difficult to solve, even for us humans.

chatmasta 8y ago
Is there some ADA regulation that requires them to include audio captcha for users with disability?

miki123211 8y ago

This might be so huge for accessibility. I know, that's what audio captchas are for, but, dear Google, not everyone speaks English, you know?

osharav 7y ago

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." --Steven Wright