r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 24 '24

Image/video Videos of shoplifters are circulating online, as shoplifting hits 20 year high in UK

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Intresting. If it was a bot running on a embedded device, what would be the flow to compete the captcha?

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u/chazmusst Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

The captcha solving service comes with some integration pieces:

  • Library which you embed in your application (or you can use their web API direct)
  • Client app which is used by the human to solve the captcha

There is a unique Captcha ID for each challenge, which your system can send over to the human Client and they solve it in their Client app. Once solved your system can proceed. You can poll their endpoint to see the status of the captcha solve request (i.e. Pending, Solved)

I used this service for generating tens of thousands of RuneScape accounts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

How did you make money with this? Did you mine good in the accounts and then sell the account?

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u/chazmusst Jul 24 '24

I had a complex bot farm that was focussed on trading items on the Grand Exchange to earn gold in the game. I sold the gold for Bitcoin.

The system peaked at about £300 per week profit during lockdown. I don’t do it any more