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…Name Server: a.ns.facebook.com Name Server: c.ns.facebook.com Name Server: d.ns.facebook.com [1] https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by keks24 · 2026-09-09 · in Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?

Yes: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by Gander5739 · 2026-05-07 · in Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2025-04-07 · in Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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story by thunderbong · 2024-08-04 · 79 comments

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story by thunderbong · 2024-07-29 · 0 comments

…[0] to automate the audio challenge. Far easier than for me to try and figure that shit out. [0]: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by Semaphor · 2024-07-29 · in Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)

…it’s own tail. Anyway, I highly recommend buster, I barely notice captchas anymore with it. [^0]: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by ornornor · 2023-08-17 · in AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

Which is why I'm always using buster[1] when facing captchas. https://github.com/dessant/buster/

comment by niyaven · 2023-08-17 · in AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

…has been a loophole for a long time to automatically solve them via google's own speech-to-text API https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by tobias2014 · 2023-04-08 · in Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (2019)

…I'm not sure how you missed the popular ones like Buster[1], NopeCHA[2] or 2Captcha Solver[3]. [1] https://github.com/dessant/buster [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noptcha/ [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ad…

comment by supriyo-biswas · 2023-03-15 · in Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?

https://github.com/dessant/buster/ buster is a technically legal software designed to show how easy it is to bypass google recaptcha.... if this continues to work, why not a third party SAAS that allows the same thing via an api?

comment by 2Gkashmiri · 2022-12-09 · in Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?

…speed dial: https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial buster captcha solver: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by modzu · 2022-03-13 · in My essential Firefox fixes in 2022

…and enter a fake email address and repeated fake passwords. Or one of the addresses listed here: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/178 Though I got pretty easy ones trying it.

comment by DominikPeters · 2022-02-21 · in Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

You can subscribe here for whenever it happens: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/320

comment by captn3m0 · 2022-02-21 · in Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

…Arkose Labs (also used by Roblox, GitHub, Dropbox, Twitch, and more). There's some more links here: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/178 (Buster is a browser extension for automated captcha solving). You can subscribe here…

comment by captn3m0 · 2022-02-21 · in Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

…any other has probably saved me from going on a killing rampage against whoever invented ReCaptcha https://github.com/dessant/buster * Typio Form Recovery --Fantastic extension that allows you to recover the data you've just typed into a…

comment by Normille · 2021-11-23 · in Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

…of captchas for an archiving project, and buster helped me with a quarter of the captchas ( https://github.com/dessant/buster )

comment by sildur · 2021-08-27 · in Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

…auto-solves google captchas by switching them to sight-impaired mode and using speech recognition. https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by fuzxi · 2021-04-04 · in 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

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story by fxtentacle · 2021-02-10 · 0 comments

There is buster: https://github.com/dessant/buster Wasn't something I mentioned earlier but using the reCAPTCHA audio is also another solution for gcap. I haven't ever used it personally but always seemed like a cool idea.

comment by xzel · 2020-12-30 · in Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

…linked below to finish the installation. I'm happy to chat on GitHub if you need further help. https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client...

comment by dessant · 2020-11-27 · in CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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story by gerlv · 2020-11-27 · 0 comments

I love this extension: https://github.com/dessant/buster It won’t solve the privacy issues but at least you’re not working on google’s training set anymore and captchas are automatically solved for you.

comment by ornornor · 2020-11-25 · in hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

…Firefox ESR than Buster. Edit: Nevermind... After reading other replies, I think eznzt referred to https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by _tbjr · 2020-11-25 · in hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

Captcha has been easily defeated programmatically for years. https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by inquirerofsorts · 2020-11-23 · in Opinion: On Google’s ReCAPTCHA Privacy Nightmare

…the Buster[1] project (an extension that solves captchas for you) Shame on Facebook, again! [1] https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by ship_it · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

…post automated messages, when it can help others. [1] https://github.com/dessant/label-actions [2] https://github.com/dessant/buster/blob/master/.github/label-...

comment by dessant · 2020-11-15 · in Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”

…that is magically blocking the bots without realizing they're also blocking legitimate users. [1]: https://github.com/dessant/buster [2]: https://github.com/bakape/captchouli

comment by akalsz · 2020-11-06 · in ReCAPTCHA and the Anonymous Experience

…successfully solve it I've used buster for years, it's free and open source, one click to solve: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by inquirerofsorts · 2020-10-29 · in Chess Captcha

Already exists: https://github.com/dessant/buster Edit: on re-read, you meant solving using humans. Buster uses speech-to-text APIs to solve.

comment by FredFS456 · 2020-10-28 · in Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

Just be a little smarter than the average commenter. It's not reached critical mass yet. https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by Waterfall · 2020-08-25 · in Please read the paper before you comment

I use buster. It fetchs the audio captcha and sends it back to google for speech recognition: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by sildur · 2020-08-05 · in Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

Agreed. I hate it. Luckily they is a way around it: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by c0inster · 2020-04-12 · in Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use

Until then, you can use my browser extension to solve them: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by dessant · 2020-02-03 · in Captcha.nsa.gov

Shoutout to https://github.com/dessant/buster by the way! `Buster is a browser extension which helps you to solve difficult captchas by completing reCAPTCHA audio challenges using speech recognition. Challenges are solved by clicking on…

comment by citruscomputing · 2019-12-09 · in Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

…with captchas, by giving us easy access to solutions already utilized by automated systems. https://github.com/dessant/buster/blob/master/README.md

comment by rapnie · 2019-10-22 · in Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha?

…queries" audio block? Because it can be a common problem after using Buster for long enough https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/56#issuecomment-481... .

comment by judge2020 · 2019-09-08 · in A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background

https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by qqii · 2019-09-08 · in A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background

I wish they mentioned https://github.com/dessant/buster which I love using

comment by MakiXx · 2019-08-05 · in There is no evil like reCAPTCHA

…users are still too non-technical to use 2FA and are subject to the frustrations of reCAPTCHA. [0]: https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by rbritton · 2019-06-27 · in Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

I use https://github.com/dessant/buster to avoid captchas and swear by it. It uses google's speech to text to transcribe the captcha audio element, and posts it back as an answer so you don't have to do the annoying images.

comment by morrbo · 2019-06-10 · in Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

…as a Firefox user, so I've made Buster to solve challenges and reclaim some of that lost time: https://github.com/dessant/buster If you're a developer, please consider replacing reCAPTCHA on your site with an alternative. reCAPTCHA…

comment by dessant · 2019-06-10 · in Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

https://github.com/dessant/buster What about this one?

comment by dewey · 2019-05-31 · in Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?

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story by luu · 2019-05-12 · 18 comments

…mode that would solve the visual challege, or assist users by suggesting image tiles to select. [0] https://github.com/dessant/buster [1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25

comment by dessant · 2019-04-10 · in Privacy Pass

I use https://github.com/dessant/buster if I need to.

comment by Adamantcheese · 2019-04-02 · in How many hours do you reCAPTCHA per week?

If you often get this while using Tor - https://privacypass.github.io/ For firefox - https://github.com/dessant/buster

comment by judge2020 · 2019-02-13 · in Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

https://github.com/dessant/buster A very good addon against the shit from Cloudflare and Google.

comment by gsich · 2019-02-13 · in Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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