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As a blind person with english as not native language, the audio captchas are pure hell. I can't imagine other visually impaired people who don't know english at all and have to deal with a lazy website which dumps them the default english audio captcha if there is audio at all.

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Try Buster.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buster-captcha-sol...

Hahaha, I love the fact that someone made a Captcha solver. Proof that if Google truly wanted to test for "humanity" they would design something different.

After so many, you're still going to get the "you're sending automated requests" message just like you do if you keep answering the quizzes correctly by hand.

ReCaptcha doesn't care at all if you're human or not, but instead has some vague aim of "preventing abuse."

Thanks, will check it out.

Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You can find more installation options in the GitHub description. Make sure to also install the client app to simulate user interactions. Open the extension's options to get started and download the client app, then follow the guide linked below to finish the installation. I'm happy to chat on GitHub if you need further help.

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

https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client...

>Hi, I'm the author of the extension.

You've saved hours of my life. I get dramatically fewer captcha requests with Captcha buster installed than otherwise (it's a fact.)

Downloading anime without installing Universal bypass and Captcha buster is masochism - recaptcha would just go crazy infinite loop mode.

Thanks a ton.

I'm glad you found Buster useful! :)

If you're into anime, you might also enjoy Search by Image, it includes support for a handful of search engines tailored to anime and manga. Visit the extension's options to enable them.

https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image#readme

Great!

Not sure if that's still a problem, but when I tried this addon some time ago, audio captchas were quickly disabled for me because of irregular activity from my network. It might not be a good idea to use this if you rely on audio captchas and can't easily change your IP address.

This thing with the network is an excuse. If I need to pass by most of the captchas, I just need to login in a GMail account. Somehow, this makes me a human according to Google.

At one point a vendor tried to claim that ReCAPTCHA was accessible because of the audio fallback. No-one in my team or at the vendor could actually pass it, so we blocked them from implementing it.

As someone with almost 100% visual impairment, I'm having a hard time dealing with CAPTCHAS. I find it more difficult to slove hCAPTCHA than Google reCaptcha.

Most of the times I can easily solve Google reCaptcha. However, If I don't know the meaning of the object being displayed / any difficulties seeing it, Google won't let me switch to audio mode ( It'll display something like "This feature is currently unavailable" or "We have detected unusual traffic from your network"

The error you're seeing is a false-positive, an it may be illegal for reCAPTCHA to deny you access.

I've rised the issue last year with the W3C [1] and now your experience is publicly documented [2], though the next step would be to file complaints and take legal action for your rights to be respected.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot

There was a CTF a while ago where someone beat Google Captcha by simply inputting the Audio captcha into Google speech recognition. It worked ~80% of the time.

I'm sure that this can't scale at least against Google. They can fingerprint their own files. Might be interesting to check with MS or IBM services as a backup.

It's a CTF, so a scalable product was not the goal here.

Yes, I get it, but i need solutions and I'm considering in that regard.

I'm pretty sure it would scale for Google in terms of net profits ;)

Not if this decreases their captcha reputation.

Well, true, but Google's product managers don't appear to care at all about second-order effects

For context, here's a recording of an audio captcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg

reCAPTCHA’s audio CAPTCHAs (at least in English) are much saner these days, it’s a voice snippet from a YouTube video their AI had issues transcribing.

That's the work of a demon.

Is there a way I could contact you privetly ?

@gostsamo on Twitter. I'm not using the account regularly but I'll check it out again.

All communication requires some agreed upon protocol. Whatever they use, people would have to understand it.

If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language.

That's a well understood protocol too.

Not all implementations follow the specification. The real world is more like IOT, not compilers.

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