A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break

vasylsmutok 43 points 12 comments November 08, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

xgulfie

> It is intended for education and authorized research, not for evading protections on services without permission. If you believe this in the readme of a repo called "fuck captcha" I have a bridge to sell you

viccis

Thank you for helping bots and spammers have a nice easy repo they can point their agents to. I felt like I wasn't getting enough love and care from the porn bots accounts recently. Very cool!

rwmj

I've never seen reCaptcha v3 (or at least, not that I'm aware of), is that used commonly? Also they don't cover the QR code that Google is sometimes throwing up, which of course I absolutely refuse to follow. It's clear that Google really wants to associate every desktop browser with a mobile phone number. You cannot create a Youtube account now without using a mobile phone number.

jwr

I just use AI to solve the CAPTCHAs I'm presented with. CAPTCHAs are so outdated, annoying, and imposing on us, users. Let's drop them already.

dangistan202611

There is the case of the unending reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox in a loop. It doesn't care if you solve it rightly.

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