> It takes time to solve a captcha regardless of whether or not it's going to /dev/null or into some neural network.
Yes, and if Google's captcha didn't get much harder, I wouldn't mention it. At least they stopped showing impossible to read random words. They had one variant which I never once passed and had to reload until I got something with distinctive letters.
It's definitely getting worse. Last week I had to give up on trying to file a warranty claim for a WD hdd, because their warranty portal stuck me in a "select all images showing X" captcha loop for 45 minutes.
Yes, and if Google's captcha didn't get much harder, I wouldn't mention it. At least they stopped showing impossible to read random words. They had one variant which I never once passed and had to reload until I got something with distinctive letters.