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Update readme w/ additional burner SMS providers
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jamesdh committed Mar 10, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -115,10 +115,13 @@ It would be wise to create a dummy email address rather than using your personal
#### Yandex is asking for a phone number

In the event Yandex thinks you may be a bot (let's be honest, you effectively are one if you are running this) they may
prompt you for a phone number as a form of a captcha. I would advise against using your own personal phone number.
Instead, download [Burner](https://www.burnerapp.com/)
to your phone and register a new phone number for receiving the Yandex verification text. The burner number will not be
associated with you in any way, and it should not cost anything during the free trial.
prompt you for a phone number as a form of a captcha. I would strongly advise against using your own personal phone
number. Instead, use a "burner" phone number. There are several apps you can use to create a virtual/temporary phone
number. Some may or may not work in your country, but you can try the following:

- [Burner](https://www.burnerapp.com/)
- [Receive-Sms-Free.cc](https://receive-sms-free.cc)
- [Temp-SMS](https://temp-sms.org)

#### Yandex is asking if I am a robot

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2. Machine learning to automatically decipher the captcha text, thus not requiring users to try and type out cyrillic
which many people will struggle with
3. Automate the Yandex account creation process. Dependent on #2 above.
4. ~~Selenium/Webdriver tricks to help avoid bot detection (and thus the captcha requests)~~
1. The switch to Google Chrome and taking advantage of webdriver features that were not possible in Firefox
should have resolved this about as good as can be hoped for.

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