What Is hCaptcha?

hCaptcha is a human verification service similar to Google reCAPTCHA. It is designed to identify and distinguish human users from bots, and to help prevent common web automation attacks such as DoS, malicious bot attacks, and excessive web scraping.

From my own experience, I’m not sure how effective hCaptcha is at blocking bots, but it certainly causes a great deal of inconvenience for actual humans. So let’s figure out a way to bypass hCaptcha and its frequent, pointless image verification challenges:

Bypass hCaptcha via the Accessibility Service

1. Sign up for the accessibility service through this link. Please use a valid, active email address.

2. Check your inbox and click the “Get Accessibility Cookie” button in the email. The link should look something like this:
   https://accounts.hcaptcha.com/verify_email/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

3. Obtain the hCaptcha Cookie via the link

• Clicking the button will redirect you to the hCaptcha settings page.
• Click the “Set Cookie” button, and wait until the text “Cookie set.” appears below the button — then you’re done.

The next time you encounter an hCaptcha challenge, you only need to click the verification checkbox — no more annoying image puzzles.

[Note] hCaptcha has actually documented their accessibility service as well. See the details here.