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this is ReCAPTCHA v3 which does not include any of the image recognition tasks. It's just a matter of clicking the checkbox

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Typically if you "fail" the checkbox (which somehow happens to me a lot) you get the bus and street lights and such that the other posters are referring to. What are those if not ReCAPTCHA v3?

reCAPTCHA v2 apparently. reCAPTCHA v3 is advertised as never interrupting users at all: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

Which is kind of horrible, since it means that you might not be given an obvious opportunity to change your score if you fail.

This can be pretty frustrating and we’re occasionally hopeless what to do. Especially when there’s no apparent reason for the low score. Eg https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/248

>reCAPTCHA v3 is advertised as never interrupting users at all

That's got to be a joke, since I have to pass the challenge like 99% of the time, not exaggerating. Of course, I have my browser configured in a privacy conscious way, so...

If you can see a challenge, it must be reCAPTCHA v2 instead.

So does v3 fall back to v2 if you fail it?

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