I also remember services you could pay to get your captcha solved via a browser extension. You could also register as a captcha solver there to earn a few bucks stupidly solving captchas. Although I’m not sure if they were actually legit.
I remember back in the day this automated downloader program… the links had a limit of one download at a time and you had to solve a captcha to start each download.
So the downloader had built in “solve other’s captcha” system, where you could build up credit.
So when you had say 20 links to download you spent some minutes solving other’s captchas and get some credit, then the program would use that crowdsourcing to solve yours as they popped up.
I remember that Jdownloader could crack some CAPTCHAs back in the 00’s.
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I also remember services you could pay to get your captcha solved via a browser extension. You could also register as a captcha solver there to earn a few bucks stupidly solving captchas. Although I’m not sure if they were actually legit.
They are legit, I use them for my bots
I remember back in the day this automated downloader program… the links had a limit of one download at a time and you had to solve a captcha to start each download.
So the downloader had built in “solve other’s captcha” system, where you could build up credit.
So when you had say 20 links to download you spent some minutes solving other’s captchas and get some credit, then the program would use that crowdsourcing to solve yours as they popped up.