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Then wait till you hear about the way they are about to change recaptcha. A captcha app that only runs on verified devices, hand gestures, face scans ... I've only learned of that today... I hate this timeline.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha
Unfortunate. I'll just have to avoid sites that enforce that dumbass captcha app, driving their traffic down one visitor at a time.
This is an infuriating thing to read, especially the day after seeing an article about Anthropic's Scary Powerful AI spending over a hundred dollars failing to solve a single captcha.
Im pretty sure every recaptcha I've encountered has been for a site I could live without.
If I see this app and identity shit I'll probably just save myself some more money by backing out and giving up.
recaptcha 3 runs invisibly in the background, so you can't really tell what sites it's running on