ReCAPTCHA v3, the version I was referring to in what you quoted, doesn't have an audio CAPTCHA or any kind of fallback option at all, which is part of what makes it so much worse than v2. (The other part is the privacy implications of adding thorough behavioral tracking to every part of a website.)

V3 actually doesn't have ANY interaction in the first place.

It just scores you and the dev can punish if needed

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

Curious. Do you have any example of a site using it? I noticed that reCaptcha has become much, much worse recently and I assumed that this must be this v3, but I've never encountered one that would actually have no fallback and prevent me from using the site.

Adidas uses it on yeezy releases when you stand in queue on each page refresh.

Can't think of a "normal" website using it.

Won't work if Google doesn't trust you enough. Which is, by the way, also a major problem.

I delete all cookies outside of a few whitelisted domains every time I close a tab, which is why reCaptcha is so annoying to me in the first place. Still, at least for me, the audio fallback is always there and much less annoying.

Tried it a few times, it just told me something to the tune of "this option is not available", with no button to return to the picture-solving option.

How does that help when Google has decided you’re a bot and you fail no matter how many challenges you solve?

Never happened to me. I've been getting "point out the hydrants" over 5 times in a row sometimes because of the amount of anti-tracking I have set up, but the audio option was always there letting me on the first try.

So, you’re saying that everyone should be happy because you’re ok?

No – I'm saying that I don't have an answer for you if I never encountered what you're describing.

No. It gave me like 17 attempts before it realized that I wasn't a bot.