This is unethical software.

[nexussays]

Google’s reCAPTCHA is an exploitative system disguised as a security tool.

Rather than meaningfully distinguishing humans from bots, it forces users to perform free labor to train Google’s AI for image recognition and content generation. While presenting itself as a necessary verification step, it extracts human effort at scale, refining machine learning models without consent or compensation.

Worse, it often fails at its supposed purpose, locking out legitimate users with impossible AI-generated images and broken accessibility features, while AI-trained bots bypass it with ease. This isn’t just frustration—it’s rage, despair, and psychological torment. reCAPTCHA doesn’t just steal labor; it actively inflicts harm, injecting helplessness and fury into moments of urgency, where real people, under pressure, are reduced to screaming at an unfeeling machine. And all of this suffering, all of this wasted human energy, serves only one purpose: maximizing Google’s profits.

reCAPTCHA is not security—it is a Kafkaesque nightmare, a dystopian labyrinth designed not for protection, but for corporate exploitation at the direct expense of human sanity.

[frostproto27]

wow

[Unbloated]

ok

[VodeniZeko]

This garbage is a perfect example of Einstein's theory of infinite human stupidity.

FUCK RECAPTCHA

[lcy1719]

I support you. This is a fucking stupid verification system. It's a stupid fucking opening the door for stupid fucks. It's stupid fucking home.

[wh1t3h47]

This is hilarious

But really, how would you tackle the problem?

For instance, I have a login section, it can be brute forced

If I lock the login attempts for a single IP, it can be bypassed by using a proxy or botnet

If I lock the login attempts for a user with too many login attempts, I can leave a legit user out of the application, and also the attacker can bruteforce different usernames with a common password

If I lock by password, then, well, I leave it possible to guess which users (locked) have a given password

How would you solve this problem without implementing a captcha?

I also don't like captcha, but I'm lacking an alternative for the web apps I develop

Also public/ private key logins or other auth schemes are not user friendly

OTP Auth could be done, but captchas are not only for logins, but for other actions too

[TheZitroX]

Agree here aswell!

[simonhughxyz]

This is hilarious

But really, how would you tackle the problem?

For instance, I have a login section, it can be brute forced

If I lock the login attempts for a single IP, it can be bypassed by using a proxy or botnet

If I lock the login attempts for a user with too many login attempts, I can leave a legit user out of the application, and also the attacker can bruteforce different usernames with a common password

If I lock by password, then, well, I leave it possible to guess which users (locked) have a given password

How would you solve this problem without implementing a captcha?

I also don't like captcha, but I'm lacking an alternative for the web apps I develop

Also public/ private key logins or other auth schemes are not user friendly

OTP Auth could be done, but captchas are not only for logins, but for other actions too

Borrow the Proof of Work idea from bitcoin. If a browser wants to log in, it has to solve a hash to a determined number of 0's, its adjustable to hardware improvements, its a tried and battle tested system, its automated so the user does not get peed off.
You can also increase difficulty for suspicious IP's and users ets.

[AndNotOr]

FUCK RECAPTCHA

[arshx86]

every time i see google recaptcha i just leave the site no matter what is it, the biggest mistake of humans ever created

[Lippiece]

It's torture. You absolutely must have a bare Chrome browser. And even then you might be out of luck.

Do you like customising your environment? Well, you must be a robot, and you can't sign up on a website your company sent you to be able to work.

Try another device? Sure, with some heuristics we will find out it was you (since you can't even use uBlock etc to avoid tracking), and we will now lock you out of every damn website on the internet.

Of course, I'm not even talking about those ultra zipped crappy images where "a motorcycle" spans 1,005 tiles and you don't know what tile to choose, and you can't even experiment because, well, this is captcha.