New RapidShare Captcha

April 18, 2008 at 7:51 pm | In Internet |
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Rapidshare - one of the most popular file hosting services changed its Captcha ( required only for free downloading ). The new one looks like this :

New RapidShare Captcha

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 :

the new captcha

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  1. I will agree with you. This is something that I can’t understand.

    Automated scripts like that are waiting to be overtaken.

    Comment by Wolf — April 19, 2008 #

  2. 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!

    Comment by NiTRO — April 20, 2008 #

  3. I still can’t get the f***ing idea!…

    Well said, Nitro, shame on them!

    Comment by AfPcn — April 20, 2008 #

  4. 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

    Comment by Mary Smith — April 20, 2008 #

  5. P.S. I finally wake up and did it!…

    Comment by AfPcn — April 20, 2008 #

  6. @ 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. ;)

    Comment by AfPcn — April 20, 2008 #

  7. @ Mary Smith

    Here you are :

    http://www.filestube.com/
    http://rapidlibrary.com/

    Comment by skykid — April 20, 2008 #

  8. 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.

    Comment by Kali — April 24, 2008 #

  9. use opera browser. when u enter wrong letters u can always go back and re-enter it. i do it all the time.

    Comment by nikola — May 17, 2008 #

  10. 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.

    Comment by nez — June 13, 2008 #

  11. 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.

    Comment by rar3 — June 26, 2008 #

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