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by Cthulhu_ 2645 days ago
In exchange, we are exposed to a minimal amount of comment spam. If it's anything like email, systems like captcha prevent 99.9% of spam messages.

Besides, how often do you see captchas anyway? If you're not using super privacy / tracking protective browsers, they'll remain hidden for the most part, and the ones you see are the simple 'check this box' variety.

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Because of how Cloudflare works, and how ubiquitous they are, specifically, internet users from a non-western country can get bombarded with recapchas. It is so prevalent and annoying that I had to resort using VPN (located on a western country), to avoid this nuisance.

It literally breaks the internet for me, I had to go through recapchas 12-15 times a day.