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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

When captchas were first a thing computers couldn’t do them yet so for a very brief period of time they were effective at filtering robots. I can believe that some poor Google engineer from 2009 or whatever didn’t realize the implication of what they were creating.