Rapidshare finally gets rid of Captchas

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Rapidshare finally decided to get rid of the Captcha images that were displayed to non-registered users who tried to download a file from the file hoster. Many users had problems to identify the correct characters that were shown in the Captcha to proceed with the file download. The reason for the change of heart is unknown but maybe it was the user protests that made them change their minds.

This makes Rapidshare easier to use for free users. On the downside the maximum file transfer speed has been reduced to 500 Kilobit, yes that’s bit not byte, which usually means longer download times.

Premium users still face the 10 Gigabytes per day limit but unused bandwidth is carried over to the next day up to a maximum of 50 Gigabytes.

Getting rid of the captchas was definitely the right move to unclutter the website and reduce the amount of complaints about the service. The speed limit won’t really affect many users. Power users will use Premium accounts and everyone else will have the patience to wait for the downloads to finish anyway.

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olis nasis says, July 7th, 2008   

I completely disagree with you. For free users they guaranteed a respectful 200/250 KByte/s, now they offer only 60 KByte/s and that is a great backward step. I’d prefer to spend few seconds with the captchas and download 4x faster.
And yes, the speed limit will affect the vast majority of rapidshare users.

Rick says, July 7th, 2008   

BAD BAD BAD news. Terrible speeds now for free users. All the fault of retards who can’t differentiate cats and dogs FFS/

CONGRATS RETARDS!!

noris says, July 8th, 2008   

No wonder my downloads stuck at 60-70KBps. I thought it was my line.

Erm, you missed one thing, there is no limitation on free user, meaning there is no waiting time after each download.

vance says, July 8th, 2008   

I rather have the captchas because the speed was amazing now its just a little bit faster than megaupload..

well, all good things must come to an end

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Rick says, July 9th, 2008   

Because of the retards who can’t figure out what a cat and a dog looks like, WE have to suffer the consequences. Dear tards, please do not use the internet

thank you

WrapUp: iPhone 3G Unboxed, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities, and More says, July 9th, 2008   

[...] Rapidshare Ditches Captchas & Download Limits Rapidshare is taking a bold new step by letting free users download files without needing to enter in a captcha. Free users also won’t have to wait a set period of time between downloads, but the download speed is limited to 500Kbps. [...]

geewilly says, July 9th, 2008   

Maybe retards will stop uploading to rapidshit and stop complaining of other retards and use a more respectable file less tarded hosting service.

geewilly says, July 9th, 2008   

All because these retards choose to upload to rapidshit we have to suffer the consequences.

101 motores de busca para Rapidshare, MegaUpload, etc. | Remixtures says, July 17th, 2008   

[...] obrigados a esperar uma hora para voltar a descarregar um ficheiro. Mas a 2 de Julho, a Rapidshare acabou com as irritantes captchas bem como com os limites de downloads. Talvez a razão do fim das captchas tenham sido os vários [...]

Dado says, July 21st, 2008   

I TOTALY DISAGREE!
Speed was the main reason for using rapidshare. I used to download with 250 KBytes/s, and now it is crap! So slow, I will never use rapidshare again! Thats idiotic!

Xlnc says, July 28th, 2008   

Today I’ve downloaded from rapidshare (free user) at around 200 KBytes/s. Till yesterday it was max. 80 KBytes/s

Joe says, July 28th, 2008   

So THATS why.. Because of dumbfucks who don’t know what a cat looks like, I keep getting download errors when getting stuff from rapidshit now, and the speeds suck..

The internet would be a better place without these wastes of human brains.

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