$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs

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stuff like this is exactly why captchas are outdated...they don't stop the real spammers, and just annoy your users.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.

The obvious next step is to use comments as CAPTCHAs: "which of these 3 comments is spam?" Then, use the CAPTHCA-breaker that results to filter spam.

This is a great service. Haven't used it on a large scale but for a few small projects worked very well.

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.

Let's see them solve the "pick out the cats" (from dogs) captcha.<p>Or simple math problems at random.

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>

This is despicable. People have CATCHAs to keep you idiots out, can't you respect this?

Wow. These guys even know customer support. They are here to help you spam other people.<p>Taken from their website:<p>Contact We’re here to help you! Please send us a message to any of the emails below: Technical Support Payment Support System Admin