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Hello,
We are excited to announce that the process for reviewing accounts has been accelerated.


What this means
Accounts that were previously ‘Under Review’ have now been allocated their correct account type.

How this affects you
You have been allocated a Free account trial. Moreover, it appears the traffic to your CAPTCHA does not meet fair usage as in our Terms of Service.
 
What's next
Your Free account trial ends on February 1, 2016 and we hope you've enjoyed the experience. By upgrading to a Plus account now, you'll ensure your service is not interrupted and can take full advantage of our premium CAPTCHA solution. If you do not upgrade by this date, your account will be closed and your FunCaptcha will no longer work.


Hello,

The estimated cost to upgrade www.qoinfaucet.com to FunCaptcha Plus is $970.35/month. This is based on your previous 30 days of service.

If you would like to proceed, let us know and we can draft an agreement tailored to your needs.

Warm regards,
Jame

Is that a mail? Didn't get one!  ??? :o

Yes, its email

They dont close they only want money for the captcha service :/

Then I'll switch. Not worth it.

Yeah, thread title is pretty misleading.

We got this email, too! They say that it is free "Forever"...but now say they will not provide services if you do not pay them!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgtgr76jkkl1pvk/funcaptchademopage.PNG?dl=0

 :D :D :D :D :D
money money money  :P :P :P :P

If you look at FunCaptcha FAQ  (http://support.funcaptcha.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2123259-what-are-the-different-account-types-)now, they say "Free (Trial)".

But back in the olden days (digged it up from Google Cache), they simple say "Free" (Screenshot (https://i.imgur.com/rx5QNpE.png))

A bit of offtopic: Are You A Human is actually closing their captcha service at 1st of march. They are developing new service, but there is no info if it will be free or paid.

Not that much of surprise, greed almost always wins out.  Luckily there are many captcha options available.

Really?  Noooooooooooo.  That sucks I like their current captcha. :/

Their FAQ says that there is no cost...?

http://support.funcaptcha.com/customer/portal/articles/1817966-is-there-a-cost- (http://support.funcaptcha.com/customer/portal/articles/1817966-is-there-a-cost-)

They probably haven't update it yet (last updated May 2015). If you look at a recently updated one (as in Jan 2016) like the one I posted, then you'll see they added "trial" to it.

So "free" changed to "free (trial)". I saw it too. I had tactics like this.


I just switched to reCAPTCHA. I'm happy.

greedy m.fckrs  :) they should just have enabled advertising captchas for free accounts. bad decision

It looks like they "planned" on being a free service "forever": https://www.linkedin.com/company/funcaptcha---stop-spam-and-earn-revenue-with-a-free-fun-fast-captcha-game (https://www.linkedin.com/company/funcaptcha---stop-spam-and-earn-revenue-with-a-free-fun-fast-captcha-game)

"FREE" is even in their LinkedIn URL!

I guess they didn't find a way to monetize

They could use advertisements in captcha without sharing revenue with publisher .

Hello,

The estimated cost to upgrade www.qoinfaucet.com to FunCaptcha Plus is $970.35/month. This is based on your previous 30 days of service.

If you would like to proceed, let us know and we can draft an agreement tailored to your needs.

Warm regards,
Jame

good luck with your business funcaptcha  ;D RIP

Totally insane. I hope they lose a lot of customers.

Are they selling this package on the basis of monthly traffic ?

it's totally crazy amount I thought upgrade cost would be 1 or 2 USD /month .

RIP funcaptcha what do you think only funcaptcha stop bots then you're wrong .

Funcaptcha has flaws that's why many faucet owner lost so much money.
who'll pay around 1000 USD per month just for a captcha ?

Your faucet looks really nice! Too bad funcaptcha decided to discriminate against cryptocurrency.

Looks like their "monetization" strategy was only for them to make money.

Any news from them because my account still showing free status not free trial.

LOL around $970.35/month per month for captcha service...Instead of paying such a huge amount a faucet admin would definitely let his faucet get raped by bots...This is the first time I have heard about a captcha service provider asking for money...today I saw a dozen of faucets whose funcaptcha accounts have been terminated...my faucet have no issue so far...It is a fact that FunCaptcha is most effective against bots, but paying monthly fee for a captcha service is a bit exaggerated...If FunCaptcha is going to implement funcaptcha plus module then they are not only going to lose existing customers, but they might altogether cease to exist as a captcha service provider (90% are faucets)...If I am right then captcha providers do earn money by not asking users but through other monetization methods. If not FunCaptcha some other programmer will come up with his/her own service. Faucets do not have to entirely depend on captcha to keep them running, faucet admins will implement some other features and since there is no shortage of faucet users, they would not mind spending a couple of extra minutes to get rewards.

900$ month? Are you kidding? I think no one will use that service anymore. And a lot of faucets will be died because of faucet bots. But now someone can create service like funcaptcha was earlier and earn good money with ads or smth . :p


EDIT: for me it's free and account t it closed yet and I don't got any email from them.

They will loose all there clients now i changed today to to other service.

Same here.

what a joke

Just a shit captcha provider they disabled funcaptcha at my faucet now I changed to g-recaptcha .

I've seen a lot of faucets switch to recaptcha all of a sudden, lol.  I hope funcaptcha doesn't make a dime for their idiotic policy switch.