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you're the first person to say anything about Captcha? The guy who started this argument needing some way to sort out human traffic operates a free service and is complaining the bot traffic makes it hard to offer a free service since bots cost money.



By captcha I meant "telling computers and humans apart", not necessarily a particular implementation.

Why are you focusing on bot traffic? Doesn't human traffic also cost money? Who operates bots and why?


The problem is allocating resources fairly. A single human may operate tens of thousands of bots, and thus use disproportionate amount of resources, possibly all of them.




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