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Sure, it's virtually analogous to bending over and picking up a penny. Except you're forgetting that most people getting introduced to this ecosystem are also learning about it's currency, are likely not crypto experts, and they likely aren't going to understand the value of those resources until they need it and then they're going to have a hard time figuring out how to get it. The faucet helps them get something underneath their feet when they start. I don't need the faucet by any means at this point, but I relied on it heavily when I first started getting involved in this ecosystem. Hands down though, if I was given the option to replace ever single advertisement I have to deal with across the net with manually completing giftgiver faucet capchas I'd do it in a heartbeat..And with all of that, we're not even talking going off the deep end by including TensorFlow AI based ML to complete the capchas for you.