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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+(OP)
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+z4
Don't they only do that if you've clicked the box for it though? I don't blame this on cloudflare any more than I would blame them for allowing open text ftp connections. This is on the websites who are the end point.

>>kayode+z4
Somewhat ironically Google doesn't use recaptcha on the Google Account signup page, it's some other internal captcha (the warped-text kinda).

>>kayode+z4
> "Google does the same to block scrapping of search results."

Google, of all companies, should be capable of coming up with a better way to detect and prevent web scraping. Broadly-targeted CAPTCHAs are extremely lazy.