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📣 CommitSyn

Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?


I use a VPN all day long and lately I've been getting stuck filling out 2-5 reCAPTCHAs each time I want to view a site or login or perform a function. In the distant pass during my bot-making days there were a number of CAPTCHA solving services that cost a small fee per CAPTCHA successfully solved. I see there are still many of these services today. I checked the Mozilla extension store and there's one that looks very sketchy but possibly works - reCAPTCHA solver by DoZz. Half the reviews are 5* and the other half are 1* and 'scam' or "doesn't work."

Are there other less-known extensions?


  👤 supriyo-biswas Accepted Answer ✓
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].

[1] https://github.com/dessant/buster

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2captcha-solv...


👤 nine_k
Tangentially, I wait for a day when an AI will ask a similar question on a forum like this, unnoticed, and receive a bunch of helpful answers (mostly) from humans. That would be a more real version of the Turing test.

👤 lightedman
The state of the internet is so horrid that I can't even use privacy mode in FireFox to log in to Slashdot, of all sites. I get endless captcha challenges and can not log in.

Captcha's are a stain on usability of the internet and an accessibility impediment.


👤 IYasha
reCAPTCHA should be banned from existence as it is. It's the worst, most annoying form of human detection ever invented (yet?). I know lots of legit sites that generate their own puzzles (usually just text or numbers) and don't even rely on JS. The only problem I see here is not everyone is capable of running their own CDN or DNS distribution (CloudFlare-like) and those providers mandate reCAPTCHA. :-| Otherwise, I don't see a valid reason for not running own image generator, which is not very cpu-expensive.

👤 toastal
It's pretty bad. I didn't renew my VPN subscription last year and this was one of the major flaws—especially with so many websites centralizing behind Cloudflare as a proxy without thinking about it.

👤 silon42
I've noticed it sometime gets into an infinite loop in Firefox, but not chromium.... :(

when: "checking if the connection is secure"

but then when I "verify", then I get infinite loop again


👤 tren
If Cloudflare is your main problem, you could use privacy pass - https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/firewall/settings/...

👤 ridgered4
I've noticed one service I log in to sometimes gives me a single captcha, sometimes no captcha at all and sometimes just throws me in a tar pit. I think it has to do with the endpoint, even within the same country. But it is bizarre.

👤 zahma
I use Mullvad. They recommend configuring your browser to enable a SOCKS5 proxy (can only work once you’re connecting thru their Vpn). They claim that this helps with captchas. Might be worth a try with your service.

👤 andrewmcwatters
Surprised no one has just combined YOLOv7 and the Chrome Extension API. Buster seems to be the best extension available on the market right now.

👤 neodypsis
Has anyone tried to apply GPT-4 to solving captchas?

👤 some1else
Came across this service last Friday:

https://nocaptchaai.com/


👤 Triangle9349
I have the same situation in chrome. Firefox doesn't require captcha for some reason.

👤 AbsoluteCabbage
reCaptcha works for V2 captchas but sites with V3 running as well have issues. Their V3 solver is in the concept stage.

👤 ackbar03
Try gpt4

👤 sccxy
Change VPN service instead