I have made money with faucets, albeit not a terribly huge amount, in total, I think to date I have only made about .02
BTC off of faucets, but that took several weeks upon weeks to reach in reality. While they are just dust, collecting dust every once in a while does actually add up over time, hence while tables in abandoned buildings have inches of dust on them..
..Realistically though, the amount of time that you would spend hunting down the 20 anti-bot links in a page (I hate those, especially when they are hidden between ads that are extremely close together), or waiting on captchas to load to decipher and type them, you could be doing some many other things to be making more consistent money. I, for example, joined mTurk (Amazon's paid microtasks site) several months ago and make money so much more quickly doing stuff like surveys and data-entry, granted its still not a lot of money as the tasks range from $0.01 to $0.20 per task on average usually.. Sometimes, there will be some worth more, but its money, and you are working for it..
The head chef at my school says that there is no such thing as the free truck, that even though it has the illusion of being free, someone is paying for it somewhere, in the example of
BTC it's whether through paying for electricity to run the mining platforms, or the costs of the internet to connect to somewhere to get "free" btc, someone is paying for that "free" money..