Sooo, was it REALLY worth it [back when faucet sites were "profitable"] to pay for the services of captcha-completers?
IIRC, with 2Captcha, you could do captchas for them and get credits to use later for your own captchas. This way you could, for example, do 24 captchas in a row (which it doesn't take that long) and use the credits to make a bot that claims an hourly captcha faucet for a day. Instead of visiting the faucet every hour, you did some little work at the beginning of the day/week/month, and he would be 24 hours claiming faucets for you.
Other than that, I doubt it was ever worth to buy "captchas-completers" to claim faucets (maybe if you consider holding all the coins while the price is low and selling when it rises).
Yeah, more or less I was thinking the same. Unless you got into BTC or another coin early enough and managed to find a nice faucet ..I couldn't imagine it ever really being worth while to go through the motions of the process at all.
Even more so now with the price so high and faucet rewards so low, lol.