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		go_prodev on May 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost all searches on my independent search engin... Deliberately feeding the spam bots into an endless loop of captchas might slowly drain their accounts if they are paying 3rd party captcha farms.

jon_richards on May 17, 2022 [–]

Then monetize by setting up your own captcha farm, but instead of paying for compute, send the captcha to the spam bots, who send it to another captcha farm and solve it for you.

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