Captcha, The New Big Scam?

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Captcha is everywhere, it is almost impossible to avoid. Its in our apps, webpages, widgets, etc. You can't avoid it without denial of services or access these days, and that could be a huge problem.

To the pount of this post: I suspect a scam. Its not a conventional scam that emails you promising millions or the eternal erection you will get for mail order bride. This is a quiet, in the open scam, born on the back of security.

My wife runs bots through discord for her Pokemon Go. While learning the ins and outs she discovered some interesting things.
1, that you can hire people to do your captchas.
2, you can buy a hashkey for pretty much any process.
3, There is a widget for that.

If you havent figured it out, websites can install a widget that collects solved captchas and sell the correctly solved key.
Havimg issues getting in to your site or app regardless of how many times you do it? Chances are you are being suckered into doing someone's dirty work.

Im not saying all captchas are bad. The slide ones or word prompting ones work the best and are pretty much infaliable. But after clicking a thousand cars, signs, roads, amd restaurants with the same invalid message....I smell a rat.

Captcha, The New Big Scam? | Ecency