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Would it though? If each system was unique and rotated through different types of challenges, the bot would have to be custom tailored to handle every challenge type.

i.e. free form questions, count the gray dots (vision impaired friendly), math questions, play tic-tac-toe and get a stalemate, ascii hang-man ... I could think of hundreds of different challenges. The bot would have to constantly adapt and the bot developer would have to really love puzzles. The bot consumers would have to update constantly and would have to learn all the challenges of each site owner.

As a bonus, google the all knowing, is less knowing and no longer a gate-keeper.




The spammers can also use cheap overseas labor to update the bots.


I would be honored to help them feed their families. It would be a fun game of cat and mouse. Based on discussions here, it sounds like people have already automated Google captcha. I will go ahead and work on a few of my own and see what happens.

Maybe we can turn this into a public competition.


Looks like you have a great business plan at hand. Beat Google with a potentially superior product and help employ some people in developing countries!




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