[pooploop64]

I don't see what's so offensive about it. If it had huge boobs or something that would be one thing, but it's just a regular mascot character. Out of all the "necessary evils" that get inserted to keep a service above water, that anime girl image is the least offensive one I can think of. It's still completely normalized to show ads for porn on sites like youtube. Captchas are an insult, with the "photo challenge" type being a full on slap in the face most of the time. I would look at 1000 anime girls to avoid one street sign captcha.

[ssl-3]

I don't know what it is, either. But it creeps me out and makes me feel dirty every time it shows up.

It does this in ways that a boring corpo captcha or Cloudflare prompt do not, so it's presence of this artwork more than it is the temporary time-wasting impediment that seems to do it.

People have irrational reactions to things sometimes, and I am people.