What are CAPTCHA and 2Captcha?
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CAPTCHA and 2Captcha are two different things. CAPTCHA is a test to prove that the users are humans. While 2Captcha is a service that can solve CAPTCHA automatically.
What is CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". Many websites use it to prevent bot spamming. CAPTCHAs provide challenges that can be done by humans.
CAPTCHA tests often involve asking the user to type in text that is displayed in an obscured image or audio file.
Two common CAPTCHAs that I commonly find are reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.
Learn more about reCAPTCHA — reCAPTCHA
Learn more about hCaptcha — hCaptcha - Stop more bots. Start protecting privacy.
Why does CAPTCHA exist?
According to Statista, bots accounted for 42.3% of worldwide Web traffic in 2021.
Human and bot web traffic share 2021 | Statista
Bots can be used to spam, scrape information, and many other things. They can create issues for social media platforms. For example, they can do promotion by commenting on each person that posts something. They can be annoying for humans.
CAPTCHA solves this issue by making sure that humans are accessing the platform. It provides a challenge that only real humans can solve—although not all humans can solve it.
Learn more about Captcha
CAPTCHA | Web Accessibility Checklist
Captcha Alternatives and thoughts - WCAG WG
How CAPTCHAs work | What does CAPTCHA mean? | Cloudflare
How to bypass Captcha?
If you often deal with Captcha, you can try a CAPTCHA-solving service to automatically solve it for you.
A service that I want to talk about is 2Captcha.
What is 2Captcha?
2Captcha is a program for solving Captcha automatically. All CAPTCHAs are solved by their workers, so it can bypass all human-readable types of CAPTCHAs.
2Captcha: Captcha Solving Service, reCAPTCHA Recognition and Bypass, Fast Auto Anti Captcha
What does 2Captcha offer to you?
2Captcha is an online CAPTCHA-solving service. It starts from 1 EUR (European Monetary Unit) for 1000 solved CAPTCHAs. It is an auto CAPTCHA solver with less than 12 seconds response time. You only pay for solved CAPTCHAs, and the server load does not affect the price.
2Captcha supports 17 different types of CAPTCHAs in total.
2Captcha offers extensions for Firefox and Chrome, with Opera and Microsoft Edge extensions coming soon. 2Captcha Extension has 60.000 regular users. 2Captcha Extension is designed to make your CAPTCHA-solving experience as easy as possible. With 2Captcha Extension, you can solve CAPTCHAs directly from the browser window.
2Captcha Extension supports 10 types of CAPTCHAs including reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.
Also, 2Captcha Extension is an open-source project.
GitHub - 2captcha/2captcha-solver: 2captcha-solver browser extension
With its high accuracy, fast response time, and low prices, 2Captcha can be your ideal CAPTCHA solver.
See the statistic — 2captcha.com online statistics. Percentage of solved captchas, solving speed, workers online.
Captcha Bypass Extension For Chrome, Mozilla Firefox: Auto Solver For Browser
Closing
I already know CAPTCHA for a long time. I was not aware of its benefit. Now, I know that it is a useful thing. I also know that there is a service to solve CAPTCHA—I never thought about it before.