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I usually just bounce when I see a captcha (if I get one, I usually get a string of them, so I don’t bother).

However, I checked secondary markets where you can pay a human to solve a captcha.

It takes a professional captcha solver 70 seconds to solve an hCaptcha but only 15-20 seconds to solve a reCaptcha. Is that typical? That seems horrible.

The market rate for a captcha solution is 1-3 cents, which is clearly worth it, until you think of the ethics of paying someone slave wages so you can browse the internet slowly, but at least without breaking concentration.

Have you considered a more ethical approach, like micropayments that go to charity or something?




Have you tried using privacy pass? Having to spend 70 seconds solving one hcaptcha every couple of days might be a good middle ground.




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