The diligent volunteers working as part of the Archive Team collective manually joined tens of thousands of accounts and were able to pull a lot, but no, it was

The diligent volunteers working as part of the Archive Team collective manually joined tens of thousands of accounts and were able to pull a lot, but no, it was not resolved with any help from Yahoo/Verizon, and they ended up having to pull messages via a painfully slow API. A ton of files, photos and databases were saved, though. The only solace I can take from the thousands of CAPTCHAs I solved that crazy week is that the image tagging is now so polluted that it’s going to be worthless for Google’s Waymo. Example: it insisted that the rumble strips (“drunk bumps”) on the side of the highway were actually crosswalks. I came to accept this in order to get on with joining groups. Also, an extremely broad definition of fire hydrant, by which I mean things that are absolutely not fire hydrants, but enough people bulk-solving CAPTCHAs in places that possibly don’t have traditional North American-style fire hydrants thought might be.