I'm happy to hear Google is charging for ReCAPTCHA. I hope they make it completely unaffordable and get rid of any free tier.

Any disincentive for sites to force users to train AI for Google is a good thing.

Every time I run into it, it makes me hate the site I'm on. Google punishes my crimes of Firefox use and not being logged into Google by giving challenge after challenge - along with those infuriating "slow fade in" images to take bigger bites out of my day.

The world would be better off without ReCAPTCHA.