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I had to use my own computer programs in order to be able to solve Google's CAPTCHAS!!!

Machines solve them much better than I do, way faster and way better.

And the most important thing, it does not frustrate or mentally exhaust me, like the thing does to people.

haha here's one better -- i am using the GOOGLE'S voice to text API to break their own audio captcha!!! so when people say that captcha is about stopping bots, they are wrong. as some of the top comments point out, from google's POV captcha is about enforcing personal identification and training AI.

There's also outsourced services that pay people to solve captchas all day, Mechanical Turk style. At this point I think they're a moral necessity, given that recaptcha will often flatly refuse to allow accessibility options for some users.

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