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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by hobofan on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:48AM (#25227069)
> on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused

A theoretical person that also wouldn't get shown another captcha as a follow-up. I constantly fail captchas on some technicalities (or haste), and have never managed to fail so many to be flagged as a bot and be denied to a website.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by taneliv on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:23AM (#25227321)
I have failed sufficiently many to be flagged as a robot, several times. Maybe I am one?

And given how many times I usually have to solve them, if not critical for some reason, I tend to just close the tab for whatever I was going to do or read, if a CAPTCHA shows up. I have very little patience for doing free work for big corporations. If it was a non-profit with public access to the data set, sure.

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