[canadapups]

While we hate Google for the privacy invasion in advertising, reCAPTCHA is one the areas that is a definite positive. Google has the data and the unique position to make the web safer. I wish they did more.

Need to give them credit for fighting: hurting malicious websites by not sending them traffic, keeping search results relevant against SEO abuses, cutting down email spam effectiveness, ... and reCaptcha.

All of this becomes very relevant when you run our own online business like I do. You can lament that google knows you're shopping for a new car, but my users lose real dollars if a scammer gets on my website - and google provides the tools to combat this.

And, no you can't implement your own captcha. No matter how smart you think you are, you don't have the data that Google does.

[bassman9000]

Poe's law?

https://siftery.com/recaptcha/alternatives