The reason why the faucet abuse went on for so long is due to the extremely cheap prices for solving captcha's. Most casinos assumed that Googles captcha is pretty difficult to cheat, especially when you need to select buses or street signs instead of just typing letters. What they didn't realize is that there are services where there are people who are paid like $1/hr to solve captcha's non stop. They use this service along with some API bot and take a bet on 99x and eventually they will reach the min withdraw and repeat the process.
I think PD was losing like 20BTC a day in the past due to the abuse as far as I can recall. Hence this strategy is more bullet proof.
In the world of technology nothing is secured be it ranking on google, or solving it’s captchas the casinos should have known better and installed better security systems in place. These news promos are actually good for the industry as it’ll draw out gamblers who really wish to gamble, and genuinely discuss about gambling.
How in the hell people agree to solve captchas for 1 dollar per hour? Like seriously? Is that a job? That is like 12-16 dollars a day at max for literally non-stop captcha solving, even in the worst of countries you can find something better if you have even a bit of English. Hell you can make more money by just having an account here and on primedice as well and keep writing on both places, that doesn't even require too much skill.
I would like to believe there is no one doing that kind of job for that much money, there are so many options available now thanks to crypto being so easy to find a job. I was thinking there were bots that automatically solve those kind of captchas and let faucet abusers steal money from primedice, didn't know it was all human.
It's mostly either some kids who had nothing better to do or some people living in 3rd world countries where it was
Actually considered a steady income.
Right now I am pretty sure the demand is down for captcha solvers but during the 2017 days there was tons of work. It actually was dependent on time of day and there were multiple services which held these Captcha solvers. These were primarily used to do faucet abuse on any gambling site that had a decent faucet which in 2017 was plenty and also there were coins like Raiblocks which had a "Proof of human" algo and had tons of abuse also from these Captcha solvers.
So like the above poster said, in many 3rd world countries it's very difficult so if someone can make like $1 USD and it takes a few hours to do so they probably will. Since standard of living there is much lower than places like USA and Europe.
Gambling sites are usually the easiest targets in this because they know they got tons of money and losing a few bucks a day is nothing to them but it adds up in the end.