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So, the solution is replacing the CAPTCHA with my SSN? All to post a review? Yeah, that doesn't seem reasonable to me...


Yelp wouldn't get your SSN; they'd only get a boolean response as to whether you're an actual human being or not.


Unless, of course, Yelp or whoever else used the service also ran a man-in-the-middle and captured the information being passed back and forth.


SSN would not need to be involved at any point during a question based verification process.


How else would they know what credit report to look up and what questions to ask?




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