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Captcha advertising

I linked to an article about captcha advertising yesterday, so here is some links I’ve collected on the subject. I have found the following four services so far:

AdCopy – In beta, you can request an invite.

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April 19th, 2010 » 11:21 » Comments

Link anchor text variations

I wrote down a few lists with common link anchor texts. Enjoy!

  • click here
  • here
  • read more
  • more
  • this
  • read this
  • link

Replace domain.com with whatever your domain is.

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December 6th, 2009 » 11:44 » 3 Comments

DEFCON 17

Reading suggestions from DEFCON 17. Go to the DEFCON website for videos of the talks.

Screen scraper tricks (focus on iMacros)

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November 15th, 2009 » 0:56 » Comments

Deciphering Decaptcher’s protocol

Decaptcher has a TCP socket and an HTTP API. This is a description of the socket API, deciphered from Decaptcher’s official PHP client. You can also look at my version of the Decaptcher PHP client that I posted recently. The following will come in handy if you’d like to code your own client.
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August 29th, 2009 » 14:17 » Comments

Captcha Farms

The one greatest vulnerability of captchas is the mechanical turk. If a human can solve it, which is not always the case these days, then you can find people that will solve a thousand captchas for a dollar.

Captcha farm services

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August 2nd, 2009 » 10:46 » 40 Comments
 

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Google acquired reCaptcha about a month ago, you might want to throttle your reCaptcha solving per IP address from now on.

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