Comment by dalvrosa

16 hours ago

How are captchas done?

A combination of different ones, sometimes close to what you know from the clearnet, i.e. click pictures that match a description. For the proxy defeating one, the server can send you a picture of the real .onion address where some letters are blanked out, and with noise added to it to prevent it from being solved by the proxy. You then have to enter the blanked out letters from the browser URL.

This can of course still be defeated if the proxy URL receives very few requests and just have a human in the middle to solve the CAPTCHAs. But it does make the attack non-automated.