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The word you type is not going to be accepted just because it is similar to what it should be. It is double-checked multiple times anyway [0]. People like you just make OCRing slower, just as if you never typed reCAPTCHA at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cygfx/4chan_is_using_...



That’s exactly the goal. To not give Google work for free unless they also share it with others.

If Google wants actually meaningful manual OCR from me, they can have it – under GPL license, of course.


That seems to be his goal. To not help.


Indeed. Google constantly takes work from volunteers, modifies it, keeps the modification under closed source, and heavily profits from them.

Helping a company that uses such a business model is not in my interest, as it means less volunteer power is available for actually open projects.




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