If you use ad blockers and/or vpn they will just gaslight you forever.

After 2, I say "fuck it" and find a different option.

After I started using a VPN it's way too annoying to try and pass it. I use the audio alternative when possible. If not I kinda just give up lol

It's because you are using a VPN. You always get a ton more captchas when using a VPN on some websites. Mainly because they don't want you using one, so you can be tracked for ads.

imo thats unusual.
i usually need to do 3 at most.

do you use a vpn or something like that?

If it has an error it will keep asking you for more forever.

It’s best to refresh the page if you get more than a couple.

Those are used to train AI, so my guess is there are some kinds of quotas that they have to make within a certain time and when they underperform they just increase the load on each user.

You aren't the only one. I don't bother solving them anymore because of this nonsense. I simply close the tab.

If i try to pretend im a human it goes faster. Fidget with the mouse, hesitate and make a few small mistakes.

Yes yes, and 2+2=4 and you hate Big Brother. Now hold still while we put this rat cage on your head.

And if the party says that there is not four but five, then how many?

Can’t wait until we get trolley problem CAPTCHAs and we have to choose the square with the most expendable human lives

I don't believe it, at least not anymore.

Google has had more than enough data to train AI models from reCAPTCHA for many years. In 2010 it displayed 100 million captchas per day. You simply do not need hundreds of billions of solved captchas in your data set.

I feel like its only purpose nowadays is stopping basic bots and annoying people who don't let themselves be tracked as much as advertisers would like.

My favorite is when it asks me to identify stairs. I just imagine a self-driving car mistaking a set of stairs as more road and deciding to try and climb the steps.

Try the audio captcha option, those usually have an actual answer it will accept. Which ironically speech to text is more or less reliably able to solve, and there are extensions to solve captchas automatically for you that way

It's being heavily impacted by AI as well, since the "correct" answer is chosen democratically so if enough bots are answering captchas then they choose whats correct and it becomes better at verifying botity than humanity.