Thank God there are others who have found these stupid captchas. I thought i was being flagged as a boarderline bot when nobody knew what I was talking about and assumed something completely different.
And then you try the audio one and it's completely impossible. One time we had 4 people trying to listen and guess what the answer was and we all got it wrong a dozen times before we got through.
You should see how bad the Walmart website can get. They have this "press and hold" thing that basically shows up every page refresh when I'm at the store checking my shopping list.
And it's not a "press for a second", it's like 5-10 seconds... every. single. time.
I mean, if they don't want me to be a customer anymore, find another way to tell me!
I use an VPN and its way worse. It is actually slightly better when I switched to a dedicated IP VPN. So, it would ask for the CAPCHA once and then never again. For those wondering, I use Torguard via wireguard on my PFsense.
Maybe I'm the crazy person, but those types of captchas don't bother me. I'll gladly take them over doing a normal captcha on TOR while trying to log in to certain services, only to have entered the wrong password and wasted maybe 5-10 minutes of my time per attempt (usually 2 or more attempts needed).