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by vunderba 55 days ago
Back in the days of warez/piracy, I was surprised to never see a "download meter" in exchange for solving CAPTCHAs (that are served from other sites) continuously during the download process if they want to actually get the file. (Or use a Bitcoin mining web worker).

It’s like the treadmill connected to the laptop - if you want to watch YouTube, you have to keep exercising.