99% of the faucet admin don't realise some things which may look like a bot invasion over the faucets but in fact it's not really :
1. With all the PTCs scams more people are moving to faucets (to the serious and paying ones with decent claims) in fact even me i prefer to advertise faucet ref link instead of a PTC ref link.
2. The global poverty and job missing opportunities,are increasing, more and more people are coming and trying to earn some money from internet (specially from poor countries).
3. The are unemployed people, like me, who has lots of free time to keep visiting and claiming on faucets all day long (a paranoid faucet admin might confuse me/us with a bot because i have time to claim all day long). Also there could be people on a wheel chair or with an incurable disease.
4. If the faucet claims are fast i mean not to many captchas to solve for few satoshi then of course i will stay and claim otherwise i will leave the faucet because its
NOT WORTH THE TIME (and electricity used by computer) to solve half a day captchas for few hundreds satoshis. Real humans can leave also if there are to many captchas but faucet admins will beleive that he get rid of bots with to much captchas but in fact admins are losing also real people.
5. If a faucet admin gets paranoid about bots then he should shut down the faucet and try to earn money from something else (such as affiliation) with his domain .
6. I dont say that bots doesnt exist , i do not know , i'm not expert in computers , bots, hackers, dos attacks are a real risk on internet and once you open a website you need to be aware of them as admin but dont get paranoid on real people, the more layers on captchas added the better the chance to lose real people and of course traffic decreases. Use a clever captcha such as 3d captcha or the rotating images.
7. There are faucets with 4 levels of captchas ...do you think i'm gonna join and claim there ? NEVER because i don't wanna lose all my day just for solving captchas. That means i'm a bot if i don't join there ? If yes then you are getting paranoid and you need to shut down your faucet
8. I do support serious and decent paying faucets by clicking once a day on an adsense spot (not more than once or twice so they don't get banned by google).
Getyourbitco.in/ has changed captchas and introduced 1 more level , that's fine because has decent claims but 1 more captcha if they'll add i'll leave their faucet for good. Already time to solve their captchas has increased.
Look man ...you can tell the difference between a user that claims a lot and persistently... and a bot. You just have to to compare the Micro payment agents records to the logs on your server .
A lot of Bots these days are "cleverly" designed to change IP and wallet address's on every attempt, but with some rudimentary investigation you can usually identify an offending IP range ...
I can tell you pal... bots most certainly do exist !!...case in point: the infamous DEPOT DATA CENTER ( look them up)
The indigence you are demonstrating through having to solve annoying captchas and anti-bot measures is better directed at the parasites that create these things in the first place ...Not the poor faucet owners!! Quite honestly, If it wasn't for these Bots/cheats/thieves you could claim un-impeded till "the cows came home" and smaller faucets would happily risk higher payouts .
In fact ...You are the very sort of person that genuine faucet operators want on their sites. Believe me, they are not happy about having to apply all of these bot counter measures.They are as much a pain in the ass for them as they are for the users and they understand only too well that you want to claim quickly and move on ....They want you to !
Another significant problem for faucet operators is that the bots also affect faucet revenue .
Faucets owners rely on the advertising impressions and click throughs from faucet users...like you. Thats what makes the faucet money. But...most bots are only designed to solve captures and "sometimes" defeat anti-bot measures ( if they're lucky) , but never to actually load the full web page, Thereby facilitating a saving of labor on the part of the bot user and a more rapid growth in the bot users takings.
The problem here is that the Faucet owners not only loose coin through the operation of the faucet , but then also fail to receive any revenue for a visit to the site , because the advertiser doesn't record any impression . So they get "whacked" twice.
I personally witnessed one attack where a bot attached, took from the faucet and then took a referral cut and then changed IP and Wallet address ...defeating the timers ...and repeated this every 3 seconds... The advertisers didn't even register any traffic through the site.
Fortunately, it was identified quickly, but the faucet operator had to pull the whole site down and remove his balance to end the attack
In fact ....I've actually seen and known faucet operators who have been driven OOB by these things.
In some cases they may be destroying a small family business operated by people who are struggling to pay bills (like you) and simply looking for a supplementary income to feed their kids( like you ). Honestly, how do they justify doing that ...just because they can? Because they're Ego's are more important than that families livelihood?.... Seriously?
Even if they were to just build bots that allowed the faucet operators to collect CPI/CPC revenues, they'd still be ripping off the advertisers, who are paying for
real people, like you to look at... or at least see... their ads.
Also ...FYI ...Ad sense has withdrawn support for faucets recently...yet another slap in the face for Honest faucet operators.
So man ...I'm sorry... but your attitude is just wrong and Faucet admins are NOT paranoid ...this is literally a war, between honest small business people who are simply trying to make extra money and unscrupulous thieves who don't care what they have to do to accumulate BTC.
I get that its frustrating for you , but direct your annoyance at the people who deserve it ...please.
