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A few years back Google changed recaptcha to use a bunch of extra information to make a decision as to whether someone was a real person. This resulted in sometimes there not being any images, once you click to start the CAPTCHAS, it just shows a checkmark and let's you through. What also seems to have happened then is that they use additional I formation to make the process much harder sometimes.

Ublock never seems to matter too much for me, but the IP address used can matter a lot. Whether you're logged into gmail/Google seems to affect it positively also.

I suspect the specific VPN you're using is the source of the lion's share of the RECAPTCHA problems you're having. They are probably utilizing a range that was or is used in a way that RECAPTCHA doesn't like.



> What also seems to have happened then is that they use additional I formation to make the process much harder sometimes.

Correct. Your reCAPTCHAv3 (which is the new completely challenge-less version that doesn't even make you click a checkbox) score is a good indication of how much reCAPTCHAv2 (the clickbox version) will fuck around with you.

In case anybody is wondering, v1 was the two-word OCR version and got shut down last year.




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