[meibo]

You're doing something very wrong if you take 15 minutes to solve these and aren't on Tor. Even on public VPN and Firefox this doesn't happen usually. I know people that pick the wrong options to fuck with their models though, and then go on HN to complain about recaptcha being annoying.

[randunel]

I have similar issues. I do not pick the wrong options. It also doesn't take me too long to solve the captchas, leading to "too many queries from your ip address". This is what internet users deal with when blocking most google services.