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submitted 1 year ago by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Hi! I was recently looking for Violentmonkey scripts to exactly fulfill the purpose of solving captchas automatically and I came across this curious extension which is also a Violentmonkey script.

Has anyone else heard of it? I honestly haven't at all. The extension itself is supposed to be completely open source and has been working really well for me.

To install the extension you need to head over to their Github and download their .xpi and be strictly in Firefox Nightly as (and this may be a problem for many) you need to disable an option in about:config to install unsigned extensions within Firefox Nightly.

Next, you need to install a package via npm called nocaptchaai-puppeteer that "simulates" human touches.

Then you need to go to their website and create a free account and put your API KEY in the extension and that's it, just click on the "settings" buttons inside the extension and you can enable them, remember to activate the extension with the top right button.

Now, the process itself to me seems very invasive as I need a package on my host machine and I need to install an unsigned extension and not to mention that you need to register with a real email, you can't use temporary or masked emails, but other than that it really works very well.

The extension itself works fine and has nothing that tells you "You need to pay to use it", as with the free API you can solve 200 captchas per day and in my opinion that is enough for anyone who uses their PC on a regular basis.

Obviously this post is not an ad and I have 0 relationship with its creators, also if anyone wants I can post in the comments a mini guide on how to configure the extension step by step, and if anyone is interested also here is my referral code, it is supposed that if you register with that we both gain more daily API uses but no idea, if you prefer you can register directly from their website!

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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Captchas now-a-days are used to train AIs. I wonder how long it'll be before plugins like this start to fuck with the quality of the AIs trained by captchas.

The same thing is happening with other AIs, though. They use Mechanical Turk to get the training data for AIs, but people on Mechanical Turk are using AI to do those kinds of automated tasks for them, so it's ultimately AIs training AIs (with extra steps.)

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

It's AI all the way down

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 1 year ago

I think as long as the human mechanical turks are getting paid for it I think it's a win-win situation :D

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 16 points 1 year ago

Finally a useful extension, a lot of disabled people are blocked out from using many different websites because of captchas.

Yeah, it will make Lemmy full of spam accounts but that's life.

[-] themirrazz@mastodon.social 10 points 1 year ago

@Xirup POV a robot passes the “I’m not a robot” test

[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Bip bop I'm a bot and this action was performed automatically. 🤖

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

🤣 🤣 🤣 bookmarked

this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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