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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by JohnFen on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:14PM (#19158087)
But I don't use those services, so that can't be my compensation.
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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by hombre_fatal on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:26PM (#19158548)
Your compensation is access to the website that uses Recaptcha and the fewer abuse/bots that you deal with on that platform.

For example, since you're here and HN uses Recaptcha on its register/login form, it seems like the compensation was adequate.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by JohnFen on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:44PM (#19163932)
> Your compensation is access to the website that uses Recaptcha

Which is one of the reasons why the presence of reCAPTCHA is strong push to avoid that site.

> since you're here and HN uses Recaptcha on its register/login form, it seems like the compensation was adequate.

Perhaps so. I don't remember doing a CAPTCHA to sign up, but I don't dispute that I did it. However, I've never been presented with one after signup. If I was, I wouldn't be here.

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