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This is worthy of a bug bounty, and I feel it should be handled as such: reported privately to them first. The people trying to hack reCaptcha at scale are not good people.

The temporary fix Google might have to do in the mean time however is to stop all audio reCaptchas, blocking the people who vitally depend on it.

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Blocking audio means blocking visually impaired people from accessing websites with reCAPTCHA.

Hacking reCAPTCHA is not only for bad people. There are several use cases where solving reCAPTCHA automatically is needed.

What are these legitimate use cases for automatic reCAPTCHA solving?

Automating searches on a government website that decided to use reCAPTCHA just because it wants to look modern. There are dozens of them in Brazil for example.

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