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Tf illegitimate use do you have for solving captchas automatically? Play with abusive software you deal with the consequences.


What use would one have for using a robot to quickly and automatically solve a challenge that’s supposed to tell you are human and not a robot yet takes a human longer than a robot?

Well, probably sidestepping this utter idiocy.


You can be a legitimate user who wants to (legally, according to SCOTUS) scrape a site.

Or is it better to farm the manual labor out to Amazon Mechanical Turk / Filipinas / etc?


The same legitimate use you have for blocking ads: they're annoying.


I downloaded it just to see. Disabled it the same day because I didn't really understand if it was working. I never signed in with GitHub though...

I also forgot about it until this post. Thanks for saving me a potential headache OP. Just uninstalled it


https://github.com/dessant/buster/

buster is a technically legal software designed to show how easy it is to bypass google recaptcha.... if this continues to work, why not a third party SAAS that allows the same thing via an api?


Maybe OP was just having a look, out of curiosity.

But I agree on your last sentence, like when a porn site invites you to sign in with your Google account. That feels like a way to get compromised somehow.


Captchas are extremely annoying, and a pox on the web.




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