[gui-talk] More On Captcha Be Gone

[Gerald Levy]

Here’s more about Captcha Be Gone.  The most recent edition of the Blind Bargains podcast, podcast 51, features an interview with the creator of Captcha Be Gone, which is supposed to be anew and superior  image solving captcha alternative to Webvisum and Rumola.  The creator, who also created Chicken Nuggets, is the owner of Accessible Apps, which specializes in creating accessible solutions for blind computer users.  He demonstrated Captcha Be Gone, which, of course worked flawlessly for the purposes of this demo and promised  that it would be introduced in early March at a cost of $3.50 a month for unlimited usage.  But at $36 a year, it is difficult to imagine that Captcha Be Gone will attract enough customers to keep it viable over the long run when Rumola, at only 99 cents a year is a much cheaper alternative that probably works just as well for most users in comparable situations.  And Webvisum, which will be permenantly disabled  starting with Firefox 45, still works with earlier versions and is free.  And he let it slip that Captcha Be Gone has “humans in the loop”, which means that it operates in a manner very similar, if not identical to, Rumola, which also relies on humans to solve captchas.  I really don’t understand what this guy is thinking.  I can’t see many blind computer users rushing to sign up for Captcha Be Gone unless they are in a work environment and need to solve dozens and dozens of image captchas every month.  The majority of blind computer users encounter captchas on an infrequent basis, and for them, Rumola is probably perfectly adequate for their needs.  If you want to listen to the interview yourself, check out Blind Bargains Cast 51:

http://www.blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=14804


Gerald