Re: [gentoo-user] Getting past captchas with vision issues.

[Dale]

John Covici wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:05:23 -0400,
> Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 20:50 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>> Anyone find a way around those things yet?
>>>
>> I've had mixed (~75%) success with Captcha Buster.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
>>
>> The general idea is that the addon will try to use the audio captcha,
>> with the sound piped into a text-to-speech engine.  That way, you
>> (ideally) get through a captcha with a single click and a couple of
>> seconds waiting.
>>
>>
> I have found pretty good results, because a lot of these captchas use
> a Google library and if you are signed into google on the browser in
> question, all you need to do is check the box that says I am not a
> robot.  This does not work all the time, but about 90% of the time it
> works.
>


The downside of that is the tracking.  Google is tracking where you go
and what you are doing.  On some browser profiles, I'm never signed into
any account, not google, facebook or anything else.  On a couple, those
sites are completely blocked and all their little friends as well.  If
it wasn't for a couple friends, I'd delete facebook completely and block
it in my hosts file.  It seems about every site out there uses facebook,
twitter and such icon thingys and that leads to tracking.  If curious,
there is add-ons for this. 

In some cases, that may be a option but for most cases where I run into
captchas, it isn't.  It's a good idea for those who are always logged
into those tho.  I'm almost always logged into youtube on Seamonkey.  Of
course, it doesn't get used much either, except for email and links
included there. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)