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You can use an audio alternative with ReCAPTCHA.

I'm as critical of ReCAPTCHA as the next HN user, but their audio version is actually reasonable compared to the alternatives out there. It plays sensible and seemingly real audio (I'm assuming random extracts from YouTube videos), generally meaningful and audible, instead of random words with silly distortions.



I've heard one audio recaptcha that was explicitly sexual. Which I think is ironic considering captcha is used to censor the internet.


Doubly ironic as captcha was originally about opening up information by helping digitise scanned literature.


I guess you wanted to say reCAPTCHA specifically.

Captchas existed for decade before it.


How does captcha censor the internet?


The audio version is frequently unavailable, especially if your IP address is assigned to a datacenter or Tor exit node.


Perhaps to solve for YT captions. Full circle




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