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Captchas also tell apart the average human visitor from the very committed human visitor that really, really, really needs to do whatever they can do on your website.


Ha ha, good point. When presented with captcha I often decide I don't care that much and just close the page.


I do the same, but sometimes I wish I could give better feedback.

"Dear British Airways, I booked with SAS instead because you assumed a Linux user with Firefox was a bot."

(Or maybe it was the other way round, I forgot.)


They are also very good at distinguishing paying Google users who get the fast-pass to Google captchas.


Is that a thing? What services do you need to buy to bypass recaptcha?




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