Their No CAPTCHA's are very rare for me when I'm browsing logged in to my personal google account under the same session, on a normal browser.
They can be confident I'm not some kind of a bot, yet they still require me to solve on average two different tests to train their "AI".
An aside from the corporate dystopia at hand: I do not know as much as I wish about how this works, but am intrigued at how the objects so often bleed into other “boxes” at just the right amount to demand multitudes more cognitive energy to negotiate with myself over what side of this false binary to place my bets on.
Back to corporate dystopia, my awareness of the procedure and intent is so blackboxed that I feel like a mule. Since I started approaching them with sloppy selection and minimal to no discern, I’m doubtful that the length of the challenge has any correlation with a measurement of suspicion at all. Rather, those liable to be this considerate will similarly recognize identify the wrath the cookie monster.
Consider this a canary that Tor is working as intended. If you get past Captcha on Tor, to me that is a sign something is terribly amiss.
The idea that this problem results from heightened security measures is wrong, but it’s not laughable; it’s just sad.