By now, I almost immediately close a page with a reCAPTCHA, because the stream of buses, traffic lights, and cycles never seems to end when you're using Firefox. And then it says "too many requests from this computer" and refuses to continue.
The pattern seems to be 2/3 'right' guesses. on sites like eBay, the captcha is broke on firefox. I complete it, and it says "you need to resubmit this form again", and reloads the entire page.
That's the cost of privacy; broken pages and refused access because Google says "NO!".
And businesses are okay with Google denying them money. I wonder if they did a cost/ben analysis if they find it worthwhile.
Thanks to Google, I've actually saved quite a bit of money, they lost out hundreds recently when their automated systems decided to refuse my transaction. Their loss and my gain.
(Disclaimer, I work at msft. Nowhere near this though).
If they are negotiating with other providers, they certainly aren’t doing a very good job of it.
Make sure they know. I write to sites and tell them they just lost a customer because Google doesn't give a shit. I've gotten replies from smaller outfits that had no idea what was going on.
I frequently run into the same issue of having correct answers rejected, and have read posts from many others who experience the same. At some point I started intentionally picking random squares for the first couple image sets. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to end up taking any more submissions overall than when I try to pick the right answers from the start.
Plus, polluting Google's free work data set ever so slightly gives me a small amount of pleasure.