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buster
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AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
The captcha buster extension[^0] along with the service on you computer to move the mouse for you works very very well. It uses google’s TTS (afaik) to transcribe the audio captcha. It’s google verifying another google service works well. I find it very satisfying to not provide my labor to train googles computer vision corpus but instead have the snake bite it’s own tail.
Anyway, I highly recommend buster, I barely notice captchas anymore with it.
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How to bypass Captchas, especially Cloudflare ones?
I was thinking something like Buster, an extension to "bypass" ReCaptchas.
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How do you guys deal with all the captchas?
If you use Firefox than use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/ to automatically solve captchas otherwise change your search engine to DuckDuckGo, your privacy will thank you.
- DO NOT POST FALSE REPORTS ON THIS SITE
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Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning
reCAPTCHA allows for audio challenges as accessibility fallback. And this has been a loophole for a long time to automatically solve them via google's own speech-to-text API https://github.com/dessant/buster
- Switch to using Bing because of this. Really getting tired of it. (Was)
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Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?
What extensions are you looking at? I'm not sure how you missed the popular ones like Buster[1], NopeCHA[2] or 2Captcha Solver[3].
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Captchas are getting to hard
One useful trick I learned is to look for the audio captcha, for accessibility purpose they must provide one and usually it's way easier than those clunky images. Some tools also automate the audio recognition like Buster, AI solving AI challenges sounds interesting !
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furry_irl
i just have a robot to solve captcha, so i don't need to do it myself
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I'll prove to everyone
Jokes on you. I use a robot to solve captchas for me.
uBlock
- Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches [1]
[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
If ads, in particular on YouTube, are the problem, anything Chromium-based is probably only going to get worse and worse (see [1] and [2]). So that basically leaves you with Firefox and Safari.
I work for Mozilla (speaking for myself, of course), so I'll leave you to guess which I'd recommend :P
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
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X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.
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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?
Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...
Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is that uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules
That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.
It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.
> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.
This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.
- uBlock Origin – 1.55.0
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
> "Its happened before"
> That's not an argument
It's a subheading to "2. Browser engine monopoly". The subsection's purpose is describing how bad things were during the IE monopoly to reinforce that it's something to be avoided.
> in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt
That would be agreeing with the article, unless I understand what you mean.
> On top of that, the internet was very different back then.
In a way that now makes it harder for truly new competing engines to pop up due to increased complexity of the web.
> I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser?
The points made in the article are:
* Increased privacy, opposed to willingly giving your data to an ad-tech company
* Helps avoid a browser engine monopoly which would effectively let Google dictate web standards
* It’s fast and has a nice user interface
Onto which I'd add:
* Content blockers work best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...), doubly so when Manifest V3 rolls out
* Allows more customization of interface and home page
* UX improvements, like the clutter-free reader mode, aren't vetoed to protect search revenue as with Chrome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467)
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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
Advertising networks are vectors for malware:
https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.
uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
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What is the safest and best browser to use???
Firefox has the best adblocking capability with ublock origin, which explicitly operates better on Firefox. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
What are some alternatives?
2-captcha-solver-javascript - A node.js Recaptcha automation program utilizing the 2captcha API and Selenium webdriver.
VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.
slader-extension - Bypass Slader/Quizlet's limit
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
Universal-Bypass - Don't waste your time with compliance. Universal Bypass circumvents annoying link shorteners.
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
wocabee-bot - This extension will automatically solve (almost) any task WocaBee throws at you at lightning speeds
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
2captcha-python - Python 3 package for easy integration with the API of 2captcha captcha solving service to bypass recaptcha, hcaptcha, funcaptcha, geetest and solve any other captchas.
ClearUrls
no-squid-game - Removes all news, videos, articles about Squid Game from your browser!
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance