Captcha Cancer

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  Captcha Cancer - Download Now!

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  can't even update my project in peace

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  another one bites the dust

Inspiration

Our team wanted to build something that would interfere with productivity and make a mess out of someone's lovely computer. We started brainstorming and realised... Almost everyone has Adblock installed on their computers to eliminate those myriad ads which clutter screens to death.

So... why not play the UNO reverse card and make an Adblock'nt?

What it does

Captcha Cancer is a harmless browser extension made for Chromium browsers. It spawns BIG RED CAPTCHAS (TM) that you need to solve under 10 seconds. "Or else what?" you may ask. It's simple - your active page gets bukkake'd with sketchy advertisements from god-knows-where. Oh, and those inactive pages you left unattended for a minute? Tab back in and you'll be greeted by BIG RED CAPTCHAS (TM). And more ads than ex-es you've ever had.

How we built it

While greatly tempted by the siren song of ChatGPT, we built the extension from scratch ourselves after going through Google's "Extension 101 " tutorials. The project was built mainly with JavaScript, but involved aspects of Html and CSS as well.

Challenges we ran into

• None of us have ever built a browser extension before.
• None of us have ever used JavaScript before.
• None of us could understand the error messages in the browser.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The browser extension is actually really annoying.
• We managed to develop all the planned features despite limited knowledge on JavaScript.
• It's not super spaghetti... right?

What we learned

• We have gained some proficiency with JavaScript - enough to shamelessly put the "JS" icon on our GitHub page.
• You should code at the Hack&Roll venue instead of COM1, or you'll miss out on all the food, drinks and games (and midnight SWAG because there is zero transportation).

What's next for Captcha Cancer

World domination.

Built With

• javascript