UPDATE: It looks like guys at EdwinSoft came to their sense. Here is what they sent to their customer list.

I’m pleased to announce that we have updated BookmarkingDemon and
ArticleDemon with the latest decaptcher script.

Here is a clarification on why we set the price at $4 / 1000 when
we added decatpcher into BMD in 2009.

Reason 1: In 2009, when we added decaptcher, we wanted to use the
price as a mechanism to prevent abusing of bookmarking sites. It
has worked very well and helped to ensure bookmarking sites remain
at a healthy level.

Reason 2: Bookmarking sites always change and we need to ensure
they are maintained at a good % of success rate. This costs money to
upkeep. The fee collected from Decaptcher helps in a small way to
ensure the software is regularly updated.

Overtime, this has created the impression that we are greedy to
some people.

I would like to take this moment to announce an adjustment to the
cost of decaptcher.

It will be reduced to $2.22 per 1000 images (instead of $4)
for both BookmarkingDemon and ArticleDemon.

Since you get a much better success rate with Bookmarking Demon using DeCaptcher and the price is down to almost what DeCaptcher charges, it make sense to just use DeCaptcher with BMD now.

UPDATE: Yesterday EdwinSoft released an updated version of BMD 5.5.6.0 and this method stopped working. You can’t use HTTP POST API with DeathByCaptcha anymore but you can still use normal API.

  1. Download http://edwinsoft.net/downloads/bmd/decaptcher_dll.zip and unzip it to your BMD folder
  2. In Bookmarking Demon settings uncheck “use HTTP POST”
  3. Enter server address api.deathbycaptcha.com
  4. Enter port 8223
  5. Test by clicking “Check Balance”

You still need to opt in to use DeCapcher API at http://deathbycaptcha.com/user/api/decaptcher

Also, everyone who used cracked version of BMD 5.5.5.0 is screwed now. It won’t work anymore.

UPDATE: You need to go to http://deathbycaptcha.com/user/api/decaptcher and opt in to use DeCapcher API. It won’t work if you don’t.

I kinda missed it happened last week but on the 11th of May DeathByCaptcha created DeCaptcher compatibility API. Don’t get me wrong, I love DeCaptcher but I use Bookmarking Demon a lot. DeCaptcher allows software vendors to charge any amount of money on top of their $2 per 1000 CAPTCHAs solved. BMD adds another $2 per 1000 on top of DeCaptcher fees which makes it ridiculously expensive to blast with CATPCHA enabled. Holy crap. Four bucks per thousand CAPTCHAs.

DeathByCaptcha costs only $1.4 per thousand and now they support both normal and HTTP POST APIs of DeCaptcher. All you need to do is sign up for DeathByCaptcha and opt in for DeCaptcher API. Then you simply use api.deathbycaptcha.com/decaptcher as a DeCapcher server in BMD and voila, you are only paying a bucks and a half.

Go for it and save some money. Talk soon.

I know you liked this post. Why not share it on Facebook and Twitter right now? You followers will love you.

Tagged with: • •

Filed under: Internet Marketing

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!