[kaffee]

I would love to pay money (or do some sort of proof-of-work hashing) rather than solve Google's infuriating, privacy-hostile CAPTCHAs. I rather suspect that Google, as an advertising and consumer-surveillance firm, gets rather a lot of information out of the system.

[Rebelgecko]

I definitely preferred it when recaptcha was helping archive.org digitize books for the good of humanity. Felt much more altruistic than helping Google train neural network.

[r3bl]

The rules were also so much easier.

It's a bit difficult to miss two words displayed on an image.

It's incredibly easy to miss a traffic light 30 meters away from the camera on such a tiny photo.

[bscphil]

That's a funny, very accurate point. I would absolutely pay 10c to have a service automatically bypass Google's CAPTCHA for me every time I encounter one.

[beardog]

They do train their AIs on the system, which is why we solve for so many store fronts, fire hydrants, etc.