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Here's the JavaScript behind it: https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/api2/r20141202135649/recap...

It's hard to see what's sent over the wire (it's obfuscated), but the source gives you a good idea of what they're collecting. The biggie is the GA cookie which is running on over 10 million sites. Like any CAPTCHA, this is still breakable -- just load your actual cookies into Selenium or PhantomJS and replay your mouse movements. Of course, once you do that more than a couple times, you'll likely have to write a crawlers to generate fresh cookies. At that point, you may as well just break the visual CAPTCHA which is trivial anyway. Ie. You should still never use a CAPTCHA (http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/02/why-you-should-never-...).



Captchas can also be useful as a differentiator between free/paid plans, or to slow down users (see 4chan)




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