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Definitely wouldn't work today. Nowadays you need to classify like 30 images of bicycles and 20 fire hydrants and pray to god before they accept your answer...


This is why I don’t have an account with Snapchat/Instagram/etc. I tried signing up and physically couldn’t get past the challenges. I take too long to solve them and then I’m asked to solve more…


Sometimes if they hate your client and ip they put you into a captcha tar pit that you only think you could get out of. Only a bot would keep trying but a human will die in there too even if they have the tenacity of a bot.


I've noticed this too. Seems like this should be illegal.




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