There’s a program called Xevil that can solve even HCaptcha reliably, and it can solve these first gen captions by the thousands per second. It’s been solving Google’s v3 recaptchas for a long time already too.
People who write automation tools (unfortunately, usually seo spammers and web scrapers) have been using these apps for a long time.
Captchas haven’t been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can’t afford the tools.
Captchas haven’t been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can’t afford the tools.
To be fair, keeping the script kiddies away has some good value. Whether that value outweighs all the wasted time and impact to sight/hearing impaired people is another discussion.
There’s a program called Xevil that can solve even HCaptcha reliably, and it can solve these first gen captions by the thousands per second. It’s been solving Google’s v3 recaptchas for a long time already too.
People who write automation tools (unfortunately, usually seo spammers and web scrapers) have been using these apps for a long time.
Captchas haven’t been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can’t afford the tools.
To be fair, keeping the script kiddies away has some good value. Whether that value outweighs all the wasted time and impact to sight/hearing impaired people is another discussion.
Decades not just years