[LogIN-]

As per google "reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your website from spam and abuse" but instead one can argue that reCAPTCHA is a service that transfer spam issue from the provider to its users, so at the end one provider will be free of spam (I guess) but all of his users will be spamed, tricked, fingerprinted and abused to actually constantly work for free for this 3rd party ant-spam service

[dmos62]

I suppose you expand the usage of spam to also mean the recaptcha mini-games where you tick all the boxes with traffic lights in them. I agree with the sentiment. I'll add that if you don't use anti-fingerprinting or anti-tracking measures, then recaptcha catches on really quickly that you're a person, and it's not much of a bother in that case. The problem with it is that it's made for the ad-peddling web, not for the private web, or whatever the alternative should be called.