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I can't believe I didn't see this coming. Given Google's size and mission statement, any company whose business generates new data must partner with Google, sell out to Google, or kill Google if it wants to survive.

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What? Why? You can write your own CAPTCHA or use another provider...Unless I'm missing something?

reCAPTCHA has some pretty good network effects due to the amount of data they have. reCAPTCHA detects suspect behaviour from IP addresses/ranges/sites etc. and blocks users based on that.

Does this mean, that if recaptcha for some reason thinks you are suspicious, you won't be able to login to your google account, etc?

Yes.

Makes it a good fit for Google, doesn't it?

That's an interesting insight but it goes too far. For example, Mint.com/Intuit and Facebook can survive independent of Google.

who?

Google has approached Facebook to be bought out...

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