they're not getting paid for solving captchas,
It's not fully correct. There are few captcha providers who are paying to website owners, for example SolveMedia. Ad is displayed in their captcha and this is source of money. But it's so insignificant that website owner will have to wait few years to reach payment treshold. Also, there was Coinhive proof of work captcha with CPU miner and they also paid to their users.
But I don't agree with "turned scam" for all because not all faucets in the past and now don't offer deposit except some such as freebitcoin.
So those faucets who haven't offered deposits can't be called scam if they shut down the faucet. Users haven't lost any money.
I don't agree with you. Imagine you're claiming from faucet for few months to reach 50 000 Satoshi payout treshold. And at the end you won't get paid. Is it not scam? IMO it's like to join signature campaign/bounty and don't get paid from it.
I mean, if you're anno 2019 still claiming from faucets that do not use faucethub/any other microwallet, you're just bound to get scammed. (Unless it's a faucet like Moonbitcoin, although those are also shady.)
Hello.
I was thinking, why do people pay to other people solve captchas? Why do people pay anything on those faucets at all?
I know it is almost nothing, but what is in for themm? Website clicks to get more visitors, revenue from ads?
I guess that is because they want to get more revenue from the ads. I see that many websites use another advertisement as the publisher, and they can add the code, and the visitor will click if they found some interesting information. That will be a great way for the owner because they can get additional income from the advertisement and sometimes, the income will be bigger too.
Besides that, people will not complain if somehow the rewards from the faucet are too small because there will be many other people will visit the site, and some of them will click the ads too. But every people will have a different reason why they do that thing, and we don't know what their purpose.
Hmm. I don't think many serious advertising networks still accept faucets though, especially low traffic faucets are a big nono. (Although i feel like bigger ones really aren't that much better regarding their traffic quality.)
I haven't ran a faucet for awhile, but the only thing i remembered making good money was stuff like Popads, that is until my site got banned from there for reasons i still don't understand. Probably just low quality traffic.
There are sites that pay for solving captchas, the same "work" as in doing faucets.
Basically, there are services there that need to bypass captchas en masse for various reasons and services that sell you a "captcha solver" which is basically an API that sends your captcha to some 3rd world solver which does it at a rate of cents per thousands.
People get paid pennies for staying hours a day glued to the screen and solving those.
But, captcha solvers actually do something useful, faucets...
Yep, i guess if you have a few thousand proxies lying around, this would be a great way to make some bucks duping faucet owners. I'm pretty sure this has also been done before.
I ran two faucets in 2016 and on the basis of my practical experience I can say captcha doesn't help all the time to prevent abuses.
I remember, one day my faucet had a huge attack and my balance was drying out. I had nothing to do except to sit & watch, later I found out a list of bad IPs (iirc then it was more than 10000) to blacklist.
Doesn't faucethub offer like a max hourly rate of satoshi's being given out? I think these measures have improved somewhat over the years, but still, they don't really combat someone who actually puts some effort into cheating your faucet.
