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by rashkov 2137 days ago
I wonder if google captcha will always be able to defeat puppeteer? Seems odd for google to publish a set of abuse-able APIs, and not be able to detect their use.
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There are farms of people who literally sit around all day and solve CAPTCHAs - there's no surefire way to address this problem and it usually ends up in an orchestration of reputation-score tooling (including making a user fill out a CAPTCHA) to fingerprint a bot.

If you're good at spoofing all of that fingerprinting you'll blow straight past them - it's all client-side in-which you have control all the way down to the bits and bytes.

You can just use Google text to speech to solve reCaptcha
There are services that will solve captcha for you (including Google's) in "real-time", and with convenient APIs that allow for automation.