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Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

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Re: Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

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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.

Not really, this only uses speech recognition but it can't do images.

Re: Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

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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.

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.

Re: Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

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post #9

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.

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.

> 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.

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