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I've wondered if it isn't intentionally impossible to solve, because "the algorithm" decided that you're a bot or malicious and they want to spin your cycles endlessly. The affect on me know is I won't even try anymore, I'll just take a different route. That may even reinforcement teach the system that I was a bot that couldn't solve it

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I think it's more malicious than that. They know I use privacy tools and can't be tracked -> they can't make money on me -> bully me into not using their service.

It may also be part of their anticompetitive war on other browsers. I get captchas constantly in a new default Firefox profile, but not in a new default chrome profile. Spoofing user agent to recent chrome agent in Firefox makes the captchas happen far less often for me.

I sometimes get multiple captchas in a row that I fill correctly but they keep on showing more..I then just do the audio one which works.

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