New RapidShare Captcha
Rapidshare – one of the most popular file hosting services changed its Captcha ( required only for free downloading ). The new one looks like this :
They did that do discourage automated downloads – softwares such as Universal Share Downloader used to be able to bypass the Captcha restrictions ( in combination with ABBYY FineReader ) . Now Rapidshare introduced animals as additional protection – cats – and dogs . All my attempts were unsuccessful until after a search in Internet I saw in the comments in one blog that there were dogs in the Captcha ( at first I saw only kittens ).
Its clear that Rapidshare wants to make more money – and this new approach is guaranteed to get them quite a few new premium memberships – but I dislike this practice . Rest assure it won`t be long until the new Captcha gets bypassed as well.
“It is not hard for bots to identify similar images . Since bot makers know Rapidshare offers 6 (or maybe 7 at times?) characters, they can easily take the image from the “please enter…” message, and search from the 6 characters with it in similar rotation / distortion…”
Andy Huang ( vBulletin)
ps : То comment on this post you will need to enter the captcha below :
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I will agree with you. This is something that I can’t understand.
Automated scripts like that are waiting to be overtaken.
This is getting boring.
I wanted to download 100 MB file, wait 2.2 minutes and then entered wrong code, tried 4 times and then quit.
Shame on you Rapidshare!
I still can’t get the f***ing idea!…
Well said, Nitro, shame on them!
i kinda understand it but it requires atention , anyway what do you know about the rapidshare points system , how does it work ?
Also please tell me good search engines like http://www.rapidsearchlinks.com , there must be others
P.S. I finally wake up and did it!…
@ Mary Smith
I’m never really looking for something, so I’m afraid I can’t help… :(
I just download whatever I find and think it might be of some use sometime.
However, if you’re looking for something and cannot find it, let me know what and I’ll try to help. ;)
@ Mary Smith
Here you are :
http://www.filestube.com/
http://rapidlibrary.com/
Thank You! I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t inputting the correct code. I never would have guessed their was a difference in the little critters.
use opera browser. when u enter wrong letters u can always go back and re-enter it. i do it all the time.
what the fuck. this new captcha is blurry…. and hard to make out… i hate it. fuck this. im switching to megaupload from now on.
omg i tryed 6x or more to start my download today wt a waste of time this rapidshare i think they r not winning with it bt losing popularity.
Try ineedfile.com to look for rapidshare files. I using it regularly and allways satisfied with the results
It’s redesigned now and looks much more beter. More than 7 000 000 files in their database.
They offer search toolbars for FF and IE. They also offer search bar for your site.