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That was always a short-term hack anyway. The limiting case is that spammers simply pay humans somewhere to continue whatever "abuse" was formerly automated, as currently happens with captchas.


Almost all spam is not profitable enough to pay humans to do every step manually, so if you make it that expensive, it's the same thing as winning.




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