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usonian

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4. The captchas are put up by YouTube and other sites linked here.

Reply to Bird Lady (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:09 PM

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I even gripe mightily on Hacker News, which is frequented by techie programmers and Venture Capitalists.

The real cause is/are the explosion in "bots" which crawl the web for content, lately for AI companies. They are said to account for 30% of all web traffic.

So, people put up captchas to try to reduce the load (some small sites are overwhelmed and have to pay for the data transferred) and of course, to slow down hack attacks.

"The Internet is One Tough Town"

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