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Re: [tor-talk] do Cloudfare captchas ever work?



On 6/23/2015 4:04 AM, kleft wrote:
mansour moufid wrote:

"Sometimes I wonder if it's really Cloudflare, or some bad exit node
running a CAPTCHA solving business."

Mansour, to what end would they run a captcha solving business?
If they were, I don't understand how they'd benefit.

It's useful for automated downloads eg with an uploaded.to free-accounts. (This is the only website I remember right now, but there are many other services require the user to enter captchas to get some content.)

OK, but how is that a "business" for an exit relay? Business implies profit or gaining some benefit. You're saying that some exit relay operator would form business partnerships with sites, to provide captcha services?
Wouldn't that be detectable to the Tor Project - or not?
Does it make sense that an operator would limit their captcha service (for sale), to sites - only if site users / customers came thru the few relays they control? Not much of a market. Isn't that like Cloudfare only offering their services to a few sites out of the entire web?
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