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> I cannot stand the idea that I have to pretend to be slower than I am, in order for a computer to not think I'm a computer.

It is not only about detecting if you are a computer or not. They intentionally waste your time (regardless of whether you are a human or computer) to make it unfeasible to scrape millions of pages. The actual "detection" part is relatively less important.



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