Megaupload anti-captcha release delayed. Blame porn.

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The latest SkipScreen release (with megaupload anti-captcha support) is still in the sandbox because the addons.mozilla.org people are concerned that our adding megaporn support might violate the Terms of Service.

We added support for megaporn because users asked for it, and because it was trivial. It seems like a bit of a stretch to consider facilitating downloads from a site offensive in itself. Particularly when there’s a huge amount of content on Megaporn that isn’t porn. For example, Firefox (and no, that’s not a link to footage of your favorite browser mascot in compromising positions).

This is a little annoying, especially since the main feature in this release (the javascript OCR megaupload code) is such a huge deal. But the AMO folks have been great to us so far, so we’re just waiting to see how this plays out. We’ve offered to submit a version without megaporn support while their decision is pending.

5 Comments.

  1. So I guess it would be the same story if I asked for support for Megarotic?!

  2. You can make a second version not registred to addons.mozilla.org with the support of erotic sites. Why not?
    you can make it downloadable from skipscreen.com :/

  3. Any news on this? i don’t care about Megaporn, but the megaupload anti-captcha support would be really cool.

  4. You can get the anti-captcha now if you install the addon greasmonkey and the script:

    Greasemonkey
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

    Script
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38736

  5. I don’t understand this, I am aware of a specific addon that’s even in the “best” category that has support for several pornography sites. And yes, it involves downloading.

    I’d go with the suggestion of putting out a separate release with Megaupload and deal with the porn sites later.