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>>matthe+(OP)
CAPTCHAs are really getting out of control. While some uses are understandable (want to edit this wiki? prove you're not a robot!), they seem to be popping up on even the most mundane of websites (want to see the results of this google search? prove you're not a robot!)

They're bad enough for able-bodied users, and I can only imagine how annoying and discriminatory they are for users of assistive technologies. There really ought to be some sort of law to get rid of them, or at least significantly restrict their use.

>>Reason+Y9
Cloudflare uses captchas for proving you’re not a bot under certain circumstances. Like when someone from your IP trips DDoS protection.

Google does the same to block scrapping of search results.

>>kayode+xe
Somewhat ironically Google doesn't use recaptcha on the Google Account signup page, it's some other internal captcha (the warped-text kinda).