> If you block cookies, ads & third party js/trackers (...) they will punish you

Exactly. I feel like Google is trying to beat me into submission.

> the repeated and increasingly hard tests

I don't mind solving quick captcha, but I'm often asked to solve one after another, repeatedly, just to be told that I missed something and I have to do it again - even if I'm 100% sure that I solved the captchas correctly. It happens every day. This is malicious, abusive behaviour.