Lots of websites force capchas when on a VPN they don't even have to be provided by Google. Rarbg for example forced a terrible captcha which I usually solved by using OCR with the OCR tool in powertoys. They letters were barely edited or fucked up at all.
It's extremely bad if you come from a country like mine, Iran, where we have to use VPNs religiously in order to circumvent censorship and it has become painful to Google anything especially when you're not logged into your Google account.
There's a program called Xevil that can solve even HCaptcha reliably, and it can solve these first gen captions by the thousands per second. It's been solving Google's v3 recaptchas for a long time already too.
People who write automation tools (unfortunately, usually seo spammers and web scrapers) have been using these apps for a long time.
Captchas haven't been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can't afford the tools.
Captchas haven't been effective at protecting important websites for years, they just keep the script kiddies away who can't afford the tools.
To be fair, keeping the script kiddies away has some good value. Whether that value outweighs all the wasted time and impact to sight/hearing impaired people is another discussion.
