Wait a minute, real people solving captcha's?

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alwiser

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From bypasscaptcha.com
Our price is one of the lowest in this industry. We achieve this by managing our own group of workers. We pay them by months with local salary in this country. (Anyway, we pay them enough for their lives. Our workers work better than other local workers without special skills because of low cost here.)
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Way to spend your life, solving captcha's? I seriously feel bad using these services now.

So like, they'll have an adult sitting in front of a computer solving 1000 captcha's in an hour? Typing df234df 1234df1r sge34df I thought that's why we have computers? to solve captcha's?
 


But what about the syndicate? What do they mean by "we pay them enough for their lives"

Are these "workers" actually held hostage by the syndicate running decaptcha's services?
 
alwiser said:
But what about the syndicate? What do they mean by "we pay them enough for their lives"

Are these "workers" actually held hostage by the syndicate running decaptcha's services?
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I pay for one of these services... It's just low-wage overseas workers...

They get paid a decent wage for their area, and the type of work.

Think getting paid minimum wage here in the states to sit there and fill in Captchas...

It won't make you rich, but if you need work, it sure as fuck will feed you, and it sure as fuck takes no skill.

:)
 
It wouldn't just be solving the captchas would it? For social bookmarking on do-follow sites you would have send them the data to enter too, right?
 
PhillipMarlow said:
It wouldn't just be solving the captchas would it? For social bookmarking on do-follow sites you would have send them the data to enter too, right?
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Nah those captcha services do one single thing: send them a captcha, get the answer back.

No. Thought. Needed. Maybe some head turning to read some of those fucky ones that can't be understood.
 
i find it kind of ironic that they invented captchas so people couldn't use a script. As a result scripts now use people.
 
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If you've been on the internets for any amount of time, you've probably solved someone else's captchas yourself without even knowing.
 
I have done a lot of traveling in developing countries and if you think solving captchas is their worst fate, then you're a sheltered rich suburban kid.
 
I have extensive experience with mainland China. People work '9-5's' that could end with life or death every morning they wake up. Think coalmines, stone cutteries, battery processing plants etc. Believe me, solving captchas at $1/hr with a chair and a roof above their head, perhaps even an AC, is a godsend to many.
 
i was going to post basically what everyone else said, that this is a great job for unskilled people in 3rd world countries, but since that's already been covered..

how did you think it worked? for some reason i picture you imagining sending your captcha off to WOPR for solving

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alwiser said:
So like, they'll have an adult sitting in front of a computer solving 1000 captcha's in an hour? Typing df234df 1234df1r sge34df I thought that's why we have computers? to solve captcha's?
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The whole purpose of captchas is to prevent bot signups etc. There are some captchas that can't currently be cracked by scripts. So to keep things as close to automated as possible, you have your script send the captcha to a service like this which has humans working (it's a job - these people are not forced to be there by the employers) to send back the answered captcha so your script can keep working.
 
I asked an indian manager guy on a project I worked on and he said his 'team' were all kids.
 
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