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'a bit' being key. It's not like a DDoSer can't already solve captchas for three minutes if that's the only protection.


The work still has to be done manually in those cases, though, whether they type it themselves or rent use of a captcha farm.


In most scenarios you only have to solve one captcha. Those are not going to be significantly affected, since the manual work is minimal. It will provide a multiplier on traffic in the case that a captcha is needed for every single action.




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