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I feel like this might be something that people here have insight on because VPNs seem to trigger Captchas a lot. What can I do to bypass them on desktop and android?

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Buster works fine for me, but it don't really solve the image Captcha, but the auditive one, it's a modified speech recognition. But I think that currently Captchas absolutely obsolete, they can't avoid bots anymore since long time ago, because with the existing AI out there, a bot can resolve these better than a human. To avoid spam bots there are way better methodes (eg.Honeypots). Captchas are currently only data collection apps.

[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not only they're obsolete, they hinder humans and don't stop bots.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

The easiest way to stop spam bots (and also spammers), I saw in the past in an Forum, where simply on creating an account, the activation mail was delayed for an hour. So a bot or an spammer, which always work with an disposable mail, which last normally less than half an hour, never recieve it. A normal user for sure can wait for it. The Forum never had problems with spam with this time filter.