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bigbugbag on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: “No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA

google's recaptcha is not that hard to beat as it only checks one word (the computer generated one) while the other is google using you to OCR for their google books service.

Just fill one word and put some random crap for the other and you just halved the annoyance.

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