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That approach will not work at all.

Majority shops have captchas since crawlers are like mini denail of service attacks on their resources and they continue day and night.

You will not pay a single webshop to browse its inventory let alone dozens you currently check before buying anything.

Like it or not this is what the internet runs on nowadays so killing that would have much bigger fallout than anything annoying captchas could do.




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