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After you fill out a totally unnecessary captcha that seems to only be there to make some users give up at that point.


The captcha is there so people don't scrape the filtered reviews (be it Google, a browser extension, spammers, etc)


That's absurd. Google's not going to see the filtered reviews unless they start doing a lot more JavaScript execution than they've been doing, and why would Yelp care if a browser extension or spammers see filtered reviews?


Google's not going to see them because they have purposefully made them difficult to scrape...

I'd imagine Yelp would rather not have a "Yelp Unfiltered" extension made and their filtering becomes less important. Same for helping spammers automate their processes by checking up on their reviews.

It's a race to the bottom though, the spammers will eventually win.




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