On my backlog of projects to do is to make a browser extension that solves the more obnoxious captchas for me, as I'm regularly behind vpn and fall into ridiculously long solve loops.
On the most popular api i could find, $10 buys you a shockingly LOT of solves (not that I've tested it yet). It is automatable but ultimately still powered by humans.
In the meantime, i hope to have the savviness to program my own way out of unsolvable captchas.
Personally, I suspect there would be more without at least some speed bumps to raise the cost of spamming. I would absolutely love for there to be better options than recaptcha that meets the same needs around bot-detection, price, implementation effort, and accessibility. It is, sadly, the best option I've seen on offer.
You're right. The scenario we're in is incredibly sad. It would be wonderful if the individual actors involved had better options to meet their needs.
All the maturely developed bot filters frequently throw me in an endless battery of tests that have me giving up in frustration before finally making it through to content I'm requesting.
> aren't the ones destroying the internet
IMO they are every bit as much destroying it as the abusers they're claiming to fend off.
Edit: on re-read, you meant solving using humans. Buster uses speech-to-text APIs to solve.