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As a blind person with english as not native language, the audio captchas are pure hell. I can't imagine other visually impaired people who don't know english a

As a blind person with english as not native language, the audio captchas are pure hell. I can't imagine other visually impaired people who don't know english at all and have to deal with a lazy website which dumps them the default english audio captcha if there is audio at all.

notRobot 6y ago
Try Buster. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch... Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buster-captcha-solver-for/mpbjkejclgfgadiemmefgebjfooflfhl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buster-captcha-sol...
- gostsamo 6y ago
  Thanks, will check it out.
  - dessant 6y ago
    Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You can find more installation options in the GitHub description. Make sure to also install the client app to simulate user interactions. Open the extension's options to get started and download the client app, then follow the guide linked below to finish the installation. I'm happy to chat on GitHub if you need further help. https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client-app https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client...
    - gostsamo 6y ago
      Great!
    - vezycash 6y ago
      >Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You've saved hours of my life. I get dramatically fewer captcha requests with Captcha buster installed than otherwise (it's a fact.) Downloading anime without installing Universal bypass and Captcha buster is masochism - recaptcha would just go crazy infinite loop mode. Thanks a ton.
      - dessant 6y ago
        I'm glad you found Buster useful! :) If you're into anime, you might also enjoy Search by Image, it includes support for a handful of search engines tailored to anime and manga. Visit the extension's options to enable them. https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image#readme https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image#readme
  - mimimi31 6y ago
    Not sure if that's still a problem, but when I tried this addon some time ago, audio captchas were quickly disabled for me because of irregular activity from my network. It might not be a good idea to use this if you rely on audio captchas and can't easily change your IP address.
    - gostsamo 6y ago
      This thing with the network is an excuse. If I need to pass by most of the captchas, I just need to login in a GMail account. Somehow, this makes me a human according to Google.
- burnthrow 6y ago
  After so many, you're still going to get the "you're sending automated requests" message just like you do if you keep answering the quizzes correctly by hand. ReCaptcha doesn't care at all if you're human or not, but instead has some vague aim of "preventing abuse."
- mannykoum 6y ago
  Hahaha, I love the fact that someone made a Captcha solver. Proof that if Google truly wanted to test for "humanity" they would design something different.
apexalpha 6y ago
There was a CTF a while ago where someone beat Google Captcha by simply inputting the Audio captcha into Google speech recognition. It worked ~80% of the time.
- gostsamo 6y ago
  I'm sure that this can't scale at least against Google. They can fingerprint their own files. Might be interesting to check with MS or IBM services as a backup.
  - falcor84 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure it would scale for Google in terms of net profits ;)
    - gostsamo 6y ago
      Not if this decreases their captcha reputation.
      - falcor84 6y ago
        Well, true, but Google's product managers don't appear to care at all about second-order effects
  - armada651 6y ago
    It's a CTF, so a scalable product was not the goal here.
    - gostsamo 6y ago
      Yes, I get it, but i need solutions and I'm considering in that regard.
Number157 6y ago
All communication requires some agreed upon protocol. Whatever they use, people would have to understand it.
- romanoderoma 6y ago
  If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language. That's a well understood protocol too.
- gostsamo 6y ago
  Not all implementations follow the specification. The real world is more like IOT, not compilers.
robin_reala 6y ago
At one point a vendor tried to claim that ReCAPTCHA was accessible because of the audio fallback. No-one in my team or at the vendor could actually pass it, so we blocked them from implementing it.
__s 6y ago
For context, here's a recording of an audio captcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg
- 8bitsrule 6y ago
  That's the work of a demon.
- Kwpolska 6y ago
  reCAPTCHA’s audio CAPTCHAs (at least in English) are much saner these days, it’s a voice snippet from a YouTube video their AI had issues transcribing.
Davidbrcz 6y ago
Is there a way I could contact you privetly ?
- gostsamo 6y ago
  @gostsamo on Twitter. I'm not using the account regularly but I'll check it out again.
sarathyweb 6y ago
As someone with almost 100% visual impairment, I'm having a hard time dealing with CAPTCHAS. I find it more difficult to slove hCAPTCHA than Google reCaptcha. Most of the times I can easily solve Google reCaptcha. However, If I don't know the meaning of the object being displayed / any difficulties seeing it, Google won't let me switch to audio mode ( It'll display something like "This feature is currently unavailable" or "We have detected unusual traffic from your network"
- dessant 6y ago
  The error you're seeing is a false-positive, an it may be illegal for reCAPTCHA to deny you access. I've rised the issue last year with the W3C [1] and now your experience is publicly documented [2], though the next step would be to file complaints and take legal action for your rights to be respected. [1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot

notRobot 6y ago

Try Buster. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch... Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buster-captcha-solver-for/mpbjkejclgfgadiemmefgebjfooflfhl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buster-captcha-sol...

gostsamo 6y ago
Thanks, will check it out.
- dessant 6y ago
  Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You can find more installation options in the GitHub description. Make sure to also install the client app to simulate user interactions. Open the extension's options to get started and download the client app, then follow the guide linked below to finish the installation. I'm happy to chat on GitHub if you need further help. https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client-app https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client...
  - gostsamo 6y ago
    Great!
  - vezycash 6y ago
    >Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You've saved hours of my life. I get dramatically fewer captcha requests with Captcha buster installed than otherwise (it's a fact.) Downloading anime without installing Universal bypass and Captcha buster is masochism - recaptcha would just go crazy infinite loop mode. Thanks a ton.
    - dessant 6y ago
      I'm glad you found Buster useful! :) If you're into anime, you might also enjoy Search by Image, it includes support for a handful of search engines tailored to anime and manga. Visit the extension's options to enable them. https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image#readme https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image#readme
- mimimi31 6y ago
  Not sure if that's still a problem, but when I tried this addon some time ago, audio captchas were quickly disabled for me because of irregular activity from my network. It might not be a good idea to use this if you rely on audio captchas and can't easily change your IP address.
  - gostsamo 6y ago
    This thing with the network is an excuse. If I need to pass by most of the captchas, I just need to login in a GMail account. Somehow, this makes me a human according to Google.
burnthrow 6y ago
After so many, you're still going to get the "you're sending automated requests" message just like you do if you keep answering the quizzes correctly by hand. ReCaptcha doesn't care at all if you're human or not, but instead has some vague aim of "preventing abuse."
mannykoum 6y ago
Hahaha, I love the fact that someone made a Captcha solver. Proof that if Google truly wanted to test for "humanity" they would design something different.

apexalpha 6y ago

There was a CTF a while ago where someone beat Google Captcha by simply inputting the Audio captcha into Google speech recognition. It worked ~80% of the time.

gostsamo 6y ago
I'm sure that this can't scale at least against Google. They can fingerprint their own files. Might be interesting to check with MS or IBM services as a backup.
- falcor84 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure it would scale for Google in terms of net profits ;)
  - gostsamo 6y ago
    Not if this decreases their captcha reputation.
    - falcor84 6y ago
      Well, true, but Google's product managers don't appear to care at all about second-order effects
- armada651 6y ago
  It's a CTF, so a scalable product was not the goal here.
  - gostsamo 6y ago
    Yes, I get it, but i need solutions and I'm considering in that regard.

Number157 6y ago

All communication requires some agreed upon protocol. Whatever they use, people would have to understand it.

romanoderoma 6y ago
If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language. That's a well understood protocol too.
gostsamo 6y ago
Not all implementations follow the specification. The real world is more like IOT, not compilers.

robin_reala 6y ago

At one point a vendor tried to claim that ReCAPTCHA was accessible because of the audio fallback. No-one in my team or at the vendor could actually pass it, so we blocked them from implementing it.

__s 6y ago

For context, here's a recording of an audio captcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg

8bitsrule 6y ago
That's the work of a demon.
Kwpolska 6y ago
reCAPTCHA’s audio CAPTCHAs (at least in English) are much saner these days, it’s a voice snippet from a YouTube video their AI had issues transcribing.

Davidbrcz 6y ago

Is there a way I could contact you privetly ?

gostsamo 6y ago
@gostsamo on Twitter. I'm not using the account regularly but I'll check it out again.

sarathyweb 6y ago

As someone with almost 100% visual impairment, I'm having a hard time dealing with CAPTCHAS. I find it more difficult to slove hCAPTCHA than Google reCaptcha. Most of the times I can easily solve Google reCaptcha. However, If I don't know the meaning of the object being displayed / any difficulties seeing it, Google won't let me switch to audio mode ( It'll display something like "This feature is currently unavailable" or "We have detected unusual traffic from your network"

dessant 6y ago
The error you're seeing is a false-positive, an it may be illegal for reCAPTCHA to deny you access. I've rised the issue last year with the W3C [1] and now your experience is publicly documented [2], though the next step would be to file complaints and take legal action for your rights to be respected. [1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25 [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot