[usr1106]

I have got this on gitlab.com every morning when I log in for at least a year. (We are a paying customer.) I use Firefox with Coookie Auto Delete.

I know that the internet is full of idiots and criminals. If they protect their service it's my benefit. It costs me maybe 2-3 seconds every morning, but then there will be 1000s of requests during the workday. If each of them were 0.1 seconds slower because their servers deal with nonsense my user experience would be much worse.

(I have no idea whether keeping cookies or using a different browser would avoid the visible challenge. I just don't care.)

Edit: I would really hate it if I had to do free Google captcha labor. Or fill the AWS one which always takes me 3 attempts to get it right.