CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by zeepzeep on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:54AM (#25227112)

Let Googles AI solve Googles CAPTCHAs for you!

"Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans" is one of my top 3 browser extensions.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Normille on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:01AM (#25227942)

Buster is a godsend and has probably saved me from having to abandon half the internet sites I visit.

Now if only someone could come up with similarly useful extensions that got rid of the other two forms of cancer that are ruining the internet:

1: Cookie consent dialogues*

and

2: Those modal overlays that suddenly cover up what you're reading and ask you to subscribe to some poxy newsletter or mailing list.

*not "I Don't Care About Cookies". It slowed my browser to a crawl when I installed it.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by iDemonix on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:07AM (#25227994)

Unfortunately the developers of those particular things (often like ad developers) use obscurity of things like div names to make the task less trivial.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by aloisdg on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:29AM (#25227357)

So we have "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans", "uBlock Origin" and what is the last one?

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by grishka on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:35AM (#25227408)

SponsorBlock?

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by caenn on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:44AM (#25227470)

I had no idea this extension existed, thanks a lot!

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by quietbritishjim on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:03AM (#25227605)

That is some ingenious bait for HN readers! Of course everyone is going to passionately defend their favourite.

(Mine is, of course, tree style tabs - I could never manage without it.)

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Normille on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:05AM (#25227979)

Go on then. I'll play. My 'must have' half dozen which get installed first, on every browser on every device I use:

* Bitwarden

* HTTPS everywhere

* Privacy Badger/Possum/Other Furry Animal

* uBlock Origin

* uMatrix

* Windscribe

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by zeepzeep on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:48AM (#25228273)

> HTTPS everywhere

Not anymore, firefox has it by default now, just gotta turn a setting on.

> uMatrix

Sadly this is dead, I guess I'll switch to a fork once I have time to figure out who does what.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Normille on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:46AM (#25230207)

  >Not anymore, firefox has it by default now, just gotta turn a setting on.

I don't use Firefox as my main browser. I use Yandex. I do sometimes wonder if HTTPS everywhere is becoming a bit redundant these days anyway. Most sites seem to have moved to HTTPS these days.

  >Sadly this [uMatrix] is dead

Yes, that's a shame. It still works though. Hopefully whoever takes on the task of keeping it alive via a fork will make it a bit more mobile friendly. [The same could be said about uBlock Origin]

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Debug_Overload on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:20AM (#25227714)

For me, it's Dark Reader. I can't browse the web without it.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by udia on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:09AM (#25227650)

NoScript would be up there for me, or else Bitwarden.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by jgehring on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:46AM (#25227478)

"I don't care about cookies"?

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by zeepzeep on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:37AM (#25227810)

uMatrix

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by FeepingCreature on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:08AM (#25227639)

TabMixPlus of course.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by superasn on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:48AM (#25227492)

Lastpass for me

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by hnuser123456 on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:50AM (#25227510)

Imagus, Bypass Paywalls, and Tampermonkey.

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