[gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com

[Steve Jacobson]

Does anyone know how this site works, whether they employ people to read and retype captcha's all day or if they have an automated solution?  I wonder how long 
it will be before the site is overwhelmed by spammers?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:08:19 -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

>Hello Cindy and all,

>Yes, agreed, use of sighted readers does not at all make inaccessible 
>CAPTCHA at all acceptable.

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "slery" <slerythema at insightbb.com>
>To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com


>As long as sighted readers are available at the time you need them.  I love
>my sighted readers, however, they usually go to bed by 10 while I am still
>at the computer at 2 am. <smile>

>Cindy

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:22 PM
>> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>>
>>
>> Now waaaait a minute here.
>>
>> I agree that the site is progress. But using sighted readers is an
>> honorable thing!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: Sherri
>>   To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>>   Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:06 PM
>>   Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>>
>>
>>   Hey, anything's better than having to wait for a sighted person!
>> Thanks.
>>   I'll give it a try.
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
>>   To: "GUI Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>; "Access-L"
>> <access-l at access-l.com>
>>   Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:44 PM
>>   Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>>
>>
>>   Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2008 9:33 AM
>>
>>   Today, I heard about this site on another list, and I love
>> it.  If you
>>   ever
>>   need to use a site that requires captchas,
>>   you will to.  The url is
>>
>>   www.captchakiller.com
>>
>>   The first thing you will have to do is sign up for an
>> account.  On the
>>   home
>>   page, they have a lot of forum posts and
>>   comments, but if you look for the crate an account link, you should
>> have
>>   no
>>   problems at all.
>>
>>   Once you have an account, you can upload those bothersome captchas,
>> and
>>   the
>>   site will process them for you.
>>
>>   I had a little trouble at first, but once you realize what
>> they want,
>>   it's
>>   fairly straight forward.
>>
>>   I'll give you the step by step instructions.
>>   1.  go to the site that has the captcha.
>>   2. find the exact page that has the captcha, and copy the
>> url that's
>> in
>>   the
>>   address bar.
>>   3.  find the captcha on the page, and right click on it.
>>   4.  choose the save picture as option and save it to your
>> hard drive.
>>   5.  on the captchakiller site, choose the upload captcha link.
>>   6.  paste the page url into the url field.
>>   7. hit the browse button on the page, and browse to the
>> file you saved
>>   on
>>   your computer.
>>   8.  after hitting open on the file, hit the submit button
>> on the page.
>>   9.  then choose the view captchas link on the page, and
>> find the most
>>   recently uploaded one.  It should be the one at
>>   the top.
>>   10 when you go through the table you'll result, and beside that is
>> what
>>   you
>>   have to type in for the captcha.
>>
>>   This may sound a little complex, but it isn't so bad once
>> you get used
>>   to
>>   doing it.  I'm not saying it's a solution to
>>   all our captcha problems, but it sure beats getting sighted
>> help every
>>   time
>>   you need a captcha interpreted.
>>
>>   Another helpful hint I can give you, is to keep the captchakiller
>> site,
>>   and
>>   the site you want the captcha for, opened at
>>   the same time.  That way, you can get the captcha processed quickly
>> and
>>   enter it on the site before it expires.
>>
>>   Hopefully, some people will find this site useful.
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