An interesting idea would be a browser extension which users can pay or subscribe a nominal fee (eg $2 a year) which hooks up to this service so the user would never need to manually enter a captcha.<p>It would detect a captcha on a page the moment the browser renders the field and it would be completed in ~15 seconds by the time the user scrolls down to the form and completes the other parts.
stuff like this is exactly why captchas are outdated...they don't stop the real spammers, and just annoy your users.<p>With most captchas I have to try 3-4 times before I can actually spell out what the image is showing. The only exception is ReCaptcha, those tend to be easy to decipher.<p>I wonder if 3-4 years down the line, everyone will continue using captchas...even when they stop working as a method to fight spam
Okay, so bad guys can bypass captchas really easily now for pretty cheap. Anyone want to make a GM script or something so normal people can use this as well to answer youtube and other captchas? I'd pay $1.39 to not have to type captchas in for a month or so of just normal internet use. I'm not trying to spam, just communicate.. Death TO captchas.
I wonder what the rate of return on something like this is. I don't know about anyone else, but I NEVER click on, yet alone but from people spamming links in comment threads. Do you?
From Cyprus, I see.<p>Does this service break any EU directives or
"laws"? There should be a law for that (even if similar services pop up elsewhere in the world).
The difference between a real user and these type of services is mainly the latency, an effective counter would rely on this fact. One idea would be some kind of game that would be easy for users with low latency to play for a few seconds and win but would be impossible for the proxy'd filipinos.
I've burned through thousands of credits at deathbycaptcha on some "darker" projects of mine, they have a nice service. Depending on the kinds of links you're building, they can be extremely cost effective. If you're going for high volume crappy links, they aren't worth it.<p>here's a good ruby library for using this service: <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/deathbycaptcha" rel="nofollow">http://rubygems.org/gems/deathbycaptcha</a>
Wow. These guys even know customer support. They are here to help you spam other people.<p>Taken from their website:<p>Contact
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