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Comment by rahuldottech | Hacker News Reader

tbh I'm sick of just how often I have to solve those click-on-image captchas. It's a pain.

You don't need to prepend your statement with tbh unless we are to presume things you say without that prefix are dishonest.

desu

I avoid them as much as possible -- if someone wants me to train their machine learning algorithm, they can pay me.

newegg lost some of my business recently after thinking it was a good idea to make me fill in a captcha before taking my money.

> newegg lost some of my business recently after thinking it was a good idea to make me fill in a captcha before taking my money.

Probably they are combatting fraud, especially the variant "check if the credit card is still valid". There's not much defense against a botnet operator trying out a 100k dataset of stolen CC numbers other than captchas :(

For the interested, this kind of fraud simply orders cheap (on the order of 1-2$) stuff online to check if the card/cvv is valid. Doesn't draw much attention unless one of the victims has transaction notification active or diligently checks their CC bill.

Just install the buster addon; it solves the captcha automatically via speech-to-text recognition.

Except when you're getting 3min+ captchas on FF they don't give you the speech recognition option, so it's either open up chrome and do it in 15 seconds or nothing.

So far it's always worked. If they don't give you speec recognition at all that would be an ADA violations (which was recently ruled to also be valid for websites and apps).

In my experience, buster also works better when you don't use the Google Speech API but any of the other ones so Google can't correlate.

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