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		derefr on May 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available... I presume by "defeat" they mean "use one of the libraries that allows you to pay $0.10 for each query, to route your CAPTCHA to people in developing countries who will solve them for you." Which is economically viable for individual use-cases, but still economically unviable for spambots.

Fnoord on May 22, 2022 | [–]

It is much cheaper than 0,10 USD per captcha.

shitlord on May 22, 2022 | [–]

Another technique is to enable the accessibility mode, which is a speech-to-text prompt and is supposedly easier to bypass.

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