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> 10 cents

0.2 cents on Anti Captcha, 0.179 cents on DeathByCaptcha

Considering that I would pay double this to avoid doing a captcha, I conclude that 1) captchas are irretrievably broken, 2) there is a profitable arbitrage opportunity here.

700 million people live on <2.15$/day people [1]. You can solve a lot of captchas in a day, probably not 1000 though. How does this work?

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview

You can absolutely solve 1000 captchas in a day. If we say it takes 10 seconds on average to solve a captcha, that’s 10.000 seconds for 1000 captchas, or just under 3 hours.

>> 700 million people live on <2.15$/day people [1]. You can solve a lot of captchas in a day, probably not 1000 though. How does this work?

Not sure if the people living for <2.15$/day have access to sufficient network bandwidth or computers/smartphones. Some may not have access to power.

You don't even need to pay them. How many captcha have you solved this year and how much money did you get back from it? Zero?

The anti captcha platforms are working exactly the same as the captcha platforms, they just send captcha through users and then acts as a middleman to get a cut.

People are so used to solve captcha now that you can get them to solve captcha for getting access to anything.

Also, you can use this to supplement income. You can herd goat and solve capcha at the same time.

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