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How to Bypass CAPTCHA With Selenium in Ruby: A Realistic Guide

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The most reliable way to bypass CAPTCHA with Selenium in Ruby is to avoid triggering it in the first place, not to solve it after it appears. Selenium exposes automation signals such as navigator.webdriver and often runs from flagged datacenter IPs, which is what brings up the CAPTCHA. This guide shows how to harden a Ruby Selenium script, which modern CAPTCHA systems you cannot reliably solve, when a CAPTCHA-solving service may help, and the legitimate ways to handle CAPTCHA in your own automated tests.

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