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For the last 6 months its been taking 10-30 minutes to log in to certain sites due to the captchas. Its like an entire afternoon after dinner to log in. I use a VPN, which is the cause, but its gotten insane. How much bot spam are sites getting now that this became necessary?

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It's even worse for Tor users, logging into Discord makes me solve about ten or twelve rounds of reCAPTCHA. It's maddening.

and they ate not even careful with their data sources.

most of my IPs run tor relays without any exit traffic, and google still flags the whole company for 30 minutes of their image classifier training every time each time a captcha shows up.

I wonder if I can start to write that time off as a donation to google image classifier program for the IRS

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