[zelphirkalt]

Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.

[ihid]

Exercism co-founder here. We get bots spamming the site in every way possible if we don't have a recaptcha. Happy to accept other suggestions for stopping bots signing up if you have any more ethical alternatives that are as an effective?

[mikebelanger]

What do you mean by 'work for Google for free?' I don't see that being required anywhere on the site.

[afiori]

Probably it is a reference to the reCapcha hell Google may drop you into if you are deemed "suspicious"

[mikebelanger]

ah ok. I never saw those captcha things as work per say, but yeah I guess they are. Free work for some model data somewhere.

[duxup]

>it started to require me to work for Google for free

How did that work?

[zelphirkalt]

Recaptcha and tracking.

[ampdepolymerase]

Would you pay monthly if they removed it?

[zelphirkalt]

Perhaps I would. I've supported many projects in the past, so I think, if it was really good and did not violate my privacy, there is a fair chance I would.

[tedunangst]

Many of the sites that force me through recaptcha are services I'm already paying for. They won't let me login until I identify all the targets.