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People usually use human powered CAPTCHA solving services nowadays

• paranorman 5y ago
  Exactly, deathbycaptcha is one I’ve seen in action more than 5 years ago. This stuff has been human powered for way longer than that.
• bstar77 5y ago
  Apparently I'm barely human enough to get through those Captchas.
• mrkentutbabi 5y ago
  how does this work? do they capture the screen and forward the captcha to some service in India?
  • flotzam 5y ago
    Here's an example of a captcha-solving API: https://anti-captcha.com/apidoc/methods/createTask https://anti-captcha.com/apidoc/methods/createTask They have a browser extension too, I guess it detects the displayed captcha and submits it to the API
    • mrkentutbabi 5y ago
      Wow, just wow. This is amazing.
      • flotzam 5y ago
        Gotta love adversarial interoperability, productionized
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  • gruez 5y ago
    for recaptcha it's even simpler. Because of how it's implemented, all you have to do is send the captcha solving service the site key, and it returns a solved token.
  • michaelt 5y ago
    I once heard someone (perhaps jokingly) suggest forwarding the captchas to users of some website you control - e.g. a free porn website where you have to solve a captcha every 10 images.
  • schleck8 5y ago
    Recaptchas yield a code when completed succesfully, which can be transfered to a different machine to instantly solve it i think. Finally repercussions for the sites not updating their recaptcha versions and annoying everyone with v2
    • flotzam 5y ago
      "reCAPTCHA v3" despite its name is not a captcha though, it's just a very bad risk-scoring service. Bad because (1) it flags plenty of legit visitors as spammy, in a way that's probably a slamdunk GDPR lawsuit waiting to happen, and (2) apparently the returned token is still replayable - Anti Captcha claims to support v3, you can even select what score you want to have (>= 0.3/0.7/0.9) lol