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		andrewmunsell on July 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous I guess the issue is, does Google know when someone recycles a captcha, and if they do, are they doing anything about it? It's useless if the captcha isn't flagged and is just given to another use.

yaroslavvb on July 29, 2012 | [–]

The tricky thing is that there are hordes of automated captcha-breakers that will recycle captchas until they get something that's easy to OCR

ceejayoz on July 29, 2012 | [–]

This is Google, so I'd imagine they keep tallies.

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