Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

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@kernpanik I hate it, but clients keeps begging for being technologically-dependent from Google. Even though I can make an API that handles thousands of requests per second (many businesses fail before needing even dozens of requests per second) on a single cheap node, they want me to build that as micro-services that are tailored to either AWS or GCP, and nothing else. When our clients start being less picky about technologies they don't understand, maybe we can fix that.

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