Captcha screen - App update 1.5.0

[javierpalopez]

http://pokemongohub.net/captcha-game-pokemon-go-bots-trackers/

As soon as the game detects abnormal player behaviour, the player is prompted with a simple captcha screen.

[Gzerox]

This is not confirmed yet, is it ?

If is real, this will be a pain in the ass :\

[maxprzemo]

It can only be used to register player?

[sohje]

Any screenshots with captchas from app?

[duttonw]

the diff from the andriod app shows recaptcha and web browser to support it included. :'(

[drricksanchez321]

So it sounds like any server response may come with a captcha challenge request.. all further actions prohibited until a valid response is sent.. If the challenge is only triggered from 'abnormal' behavior, the goal of the bot going forward should be preventing the captcha challenge request rather than cracking the captcha (but that's pretty obvious?). For that.. we'd need to be able to solve the captchas when they arise through the bot.. spawning some browser window with the captcha script, collecting the hash and attaching to the response. Recaptcha uses the hash and the remote IP to validate -- since we'd solve it on the same machine as the bot, the IP would match.

[supergithubo]

On the good side, we'll now determine what specific behavior will trigger suspicious activity :)

[mjmadsen]

@k4n30 We'll be needing an issue for this as soon as they activate that portion of code.

[k4n30]

Agreed, but right now it's not an issue with the bot, and will only get lost if it remains open until it becomes an issue. Could be a feature request though :p

[mjmadsen]

I'm fine with that. 👍