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by inferiorhuman 304 days ago
Sorry, I should've just left it at trivially defeated. My preferred method is to just use a different browser and/or clear my cookies. Meanwhile I spent around 30 seconds on DDG and came up with 5 chrome store captcha solvers, 2 github projects, and 1 paid captcha solving service.

False. Sense. Of. Security.
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sanswork 304 days ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. See we can all do that. I don't need a captcha to be perfect, I need to it be good enough.
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inferiorhuman 304 days ago
Right, it's not even good at anything save for using my CPU and my time to train Google's AI products. As a human if I get blocked (a.k.a. it refuses to acknowledge anything I've "solved" correctly) I can clear my cookies and bypass the block. Whatever benefit you think you're getting, you're not.
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sanswork 304 days ago
The benefit I'm getting is it stop almost all bots from submitting forms on my websites. It works basically flawlessly for that. I'm guessing you either don't run any websites with traffic or have never tried it if you think its worthless. I'm sure there are ways to bypass them but no one I care about has bothered so it doesn't matter. The lock on my front door doesn't have to stop a professional lock picker to be useful. The captcha on my website doesn't have to stop someone trying to get around it for it to be useful at stopping almost all the bots that don't even bother trying.
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inferiorhuman 304 days ago 

  The lock on my front door doesn't have to stop a professional lock picker to be useful.
You've taped the key to the door knob. You're not stopping bots or bad actors, and I'll sleep plenty well at night knowing I use an ad blocker.
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sanswork 303 days ago
I literally am stopping bots though, it isn't hard to see the results or the differences between results into my systems with it on and off. It's weird that you're trying to argue against my actual experience.

Of course you do, you've managed to justify to yourself that your leeching is both giving it to Google and somehow supporting content creators. The internal inconsistency could only possibly lead to a good nights sleep.

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