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by YetAnotherNick 818 days ago
According to google search, captcha solving companies charges 0.3c per captcha[1], which basically translates to half an hour of PoW for digitalocean instance. So if the PoW is less than half hour, spammers would need to pay less with PoW.

[1]: https://2captcha.com/pricing

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Then I guess the value comes with the privacy and human-friendliness, then :)
Web filled to the brim with bot content isn't my idea of human friendly.
I'm not sure what comment you're replying to, but I think you got the wrong one. Nothing that I'm proposing results in a "web filled to the brim with bot content".