How botmakers beat faucet captchas

[Hydrogen]

When I was last active on this forum years back, I noticed the website protypers.com was using human workers to beat captchas.

Now that I'm returned to see what's new.  I've realized protypers.com is using their captcha defeating service to drain funds from bitcoin faucets and micro earning sites.

To those who run faucets, if you've ever wondered why you have a hard time earning income check out protypers.com and update your knowledge base on how they beat the captchas on your bitcoin faucets to profit at your expense -- and at the expense of the bitcoin community as a whole.

[SatHunter]

Why would they pay someone to type captchas for .00001 reward? It must cost them that much for the typer.

[Hydrogen]

They pay about 0.002 btc per every thousand captchas.

Comes out to around 0.000002 per captcha expense, still less than 0.00001 or whatever their gain is.

Some faucets and micro earnings sites pay 0.00002 which is about 10x a 0.000002 expense.

They could do big volume like wal mart which helps.

[FaucetRank.com]

In this case low reward and low timer can help.

[tsaroz]

Captcha solver are not the real problems. The problems are the proxy addresses that hampers the advertisement revenue.
As of captcha, Funcaptcha seems much tougher to break by a bot or send it to other for solving like in protypers.

[Hydrogen]

Captcha solver are not the real problems. The problems are the proxy addresses that hampers the advertisement revenue.

Is it really hard to block known proxies, VPN's and TOR exit nodes?

Metrics analysis and WHOIS of traffic could give ppl some indication what percentage of their traffic is legit.

What might be tough to identify is bot zombie traffic.  A better captcha could be the best method of blocking those since they would look like normal traffic for the most part.

It could help to know OCR's probably aren't in play.  

[BitBustah]

When I was last active on this forum years back, I noticed the website protypers.com was using human workers to beat captchas.

Now that I'm returned to see what's new.  I've realized protypers.com is using their captcha defeating service to drain funds from bitcoin faucets and micro earning sites.

To those who run faucets, if you've ever wondered why you have a hard time earning income check out protypers.com and update your knowledge base on how they beat the captchas on your bitcoin faucets to profit at your expense -- and at the expense of the bitcoin community as a whole.

Old news, but thanks anyway. What I find even more depressing is that people here on this forum are actually signing up to do these captchas. So sad.