"I believe reCAPTCHA's true purpose is to harvest user information and labor from websites," asserted Andrew Searles
"If you believe that reCAPTCHA is securing your website, you have been deceived."
reCAPTCHA has used:
819 million hrs of human time
$6.1 billion USD in wages
134 petabytes of bandwidth
7.5 million kWhs of energy
7.5 million pounds of CO2
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/24/googles_recaptchav2_labor/