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Leaving aside the ethical issues, has anyone considered building a "white-hat" CAPTCHA cracker tool using one of these services? Personally, I hate solving CAPT
by samps 15y ago
Leaving aside the ethical issues, has anyone considered building a "white-hat" CAPTCHA cracker tool using one of these services? Personally, I hate solving CAPTCHAs to sign up for stuff, and I wish there were a browser extension button I could hit that would do it for me. I'd gladly pay a few cents and wait several seconds (browsing in another tab) if it meant I didn't have to try to decipher some of the crazier CAPTCHAs out there.
- user24 15y agoBut who'd be doing the solve? If you have a machine to do it then you have a product (but only until the captcha improves, after all that's the whole point). If it's humans, you're either pricing yourself out of the market or using slave labour.
- praptak 15y agoThere is captchatrader, which is sort of like that - you can "store" captchas by solving a lot of them at once. This earns you credit which you can use later to have your captchas solved for you. See this: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/08/19/captcha-trader-automatic-free-captcha-solving-for-jdownloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2011/08/19/captcha-trader-automatic-fr... Of course any such service can be used by spammers, so there is no real "white-hat"/"black-hat" distinction.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoSeems like there would be no difference between the white-hat and the black-hat version except possibly in the mission statement on the "about us" page.