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... this code literally just scrapes images from recaptcha right now, and it barely does that. If you want it broken, all you have to do is take these images a

• neurostimulant 10y ago
  That price is inhumane. Assuming the worker can solve 1 captcha every 10s in average, when working full time at 25 working day and 8 hours / day, a worker can clear 72000 captcha per month, grossing $72. The take home pay might be like half of it? Even in developing countries, $36 per month is too damn low for that mentally taxing work.
  • compsciphd 10y ago
    a good solver should be able to do it much faster than 1 every 10s. As someone who sees a lot of recaptcha captchas (i.e. per week I solve probably 1k+ working on a similar project) you notice patterns, that makes it much quicker and not particularly mentally taxing. With the proper tools, someone should be able to on average do them in under 5s and perhaps even faster. I just did a test, and I was able to do 20 recaptchas in a bit over a minute (65-70s, rough timer) Now, I wouldn't want to do for pay 8 hours a day, but at 3s a captcha it and at $1 per 1K captchas, one is looking at about $1/hr, which probably isn't bad in some parts of the world. (per a quick google search, "In 2009, the average monthly income in India was Rs 3000 [1]. If we assume 160 hours worked per month, that comes out to Rs 18.75 per hour, which is about 0.40 USD per hour. Given that about half of the country lives on a dollar per person per day [2], this estimate sounds reasonable.Oct 28, 2011")