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Re:There is no evil like reCAPTCHA by Wowfunhappy on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:06PM (#20615831)
As I said below, this is what I thought too, but another HN'er pointed out that a bot could load up a thousand captcha's in parallel and just switch between them while waiting for the fade in.
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Re:There is no evil like reCAPTCHA by inlined on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:46PM (#20616330)
Sure, they can, but putting a small delay forces an arms race on how big a cluster you need to operate those parallel bots and how cheaply you can offer a cracking service.
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