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Yeah, thats the same state of affairs as traditional captchas. There are sites where you can pay under a cent apiece to have real humans solve your captchas.
by luhn 7y ago
Yeah, thats the same state of affairs as traditional captchas. There are sites where you can pay under a cent apiece to have real humans solve your captchas. This is just shifting the cost from human capital to compute, it will suffer the same limitations.
- theferalrobot 7y agoPay humans? You can install a browser extension to solve it for you. ReCaptcha is totally ineffective against spam.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoNot in my experience on large websites. If "all it takes" is round tripping the audio component through speech-to-text, then it's apparently annoying enough at scale to stop the vast majority of spam. Also, automating something in a browser extension is basically the easiest place to automate something because it's just done once per user, with their cookies/sessions/ipaddr, very infrequently. So that a browser extension exists for something doesn't mean it's trivial at larger scale. I doubt Google cares about the usage pattern that Buster gives people since it alone is not abuse, just normal people filling out the someodd <form>.
- judge2020 7y agoHave you not used it enough to get the "your computer is performing automated queries" audio block? Because it can be a common problem after using Buster for long enough https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/56#issuecomment-481655521 https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/56#issuecomment-481....