As someone who does not leave his credentials when he closes his browser i have to say, the recaptcha i'm not a robot validation i'm suffering since this wkend is... quite ... tantalizing.

But If it keeps the bots out then i'm very cool, i mean, when i'm down of course (and this has something to do with bots). Maybe GoG also needs to do a refresh for all those with automatic logins?

Tantalizing is experiencing a form of excited boredom when failing the recaptcha that sends you on a tour through the thunderdome of recaptcha....

I can't remember even seeing a single Recaptcha in the last year or so?
Maybe everybody knows by now I'm totally trustworthy. :-)

Strange. I also clean everything (cookies, cache, history) on every browser exit so I basically log in every day, and I haven't seen captcha on GOG in years.

Yeah it doessn't treat everyone equally. It's computer-automated discrimination.

Have you seen the amount of spam on GOG forums, especially during week-ends?

--- It’s not about trustworthiness, but about your behaviour: good obedient Google users are spared the captcha, dangerous rebels with no Google account on the other hand deserve to suffer.

And real bots obviously don’t care, they have been able to pass through captchas for years now… often by delegating the captcha resolution to a human.

I had a captcha curse 1 or 2 years ago for unknown reasons, maybe I accidentally logged in once or twice from a different IP (different country IP even), thank goodness it cured itself after about a week and never come back since.

And people who have Google's main server address blocked have to unblock it to pass the captcha.

I've had this for like almost a year. I was fiddling with the VPN in Opera and Google absolutely flipped out. It started spamming me with "suspicious activity" warnings and probably shadow-banned my IP address or something. Since then, Captcha failed to load on my PC in Chrome, Opera or even something like logging in to Epic Games. The only browser it'd work in was Edge (for whatever reason).

Luckily, after I recently updated Windows, it seems to have fixed itself. But it's funny how much stuff becomes completely inaccesible when Captcha refuses to cooperate.

Currently, I'm writing this on my desktop computer, never logged in to any Google Account, using Firefox, and manually deleting all my cookies maybe every month or so... So, I wouldn't call myself "obedient".

On the other hand: It could very well be that -- in between cookie crunching -- I collect such a clear data trail, that I easily qualify as "human consumer". Also digital fingerprinting is a real thing. I have not the slightest doubt that my system configuration is rare and unique enough to identify me again and again, without any need for cookies or logins.

Try setting Opera settings to Default next time, it might help. I also had those "suspicious activity" warning screens after I had some fun with Opera build-in VPN (which now is banned in my country and permanently disabled), setting everything back to default helped a lot.

IIRC recaptcha is triggered after a certain amount login / logoff to the site , as you clear everything (i do the same) the site doesn't remember you whatever browser used etc.... Only way to stop the recaptcha to appear (if you triggered it) is to stop to login for 24h i think (at least that's what i observed)

What is annoying : too often the very bad quality of images used and random number of images to validate ....here lied the discrimination

So the only thing to remember do not login/logoff too many times in a 24h window.

Is there really a google link? Most of the time i tend to login both to youtube and GoG at the same time.... Though with the vacation already a past memory it is now usually only one of the two

Well, I'm never logged in to google account in this browser and other sites give me captcha regularly. But not GOG for some reason.

Maybe my ISP is whitelisted because I remember getting it when I used to be connected to VPN often.

I remember failing to answer Captcha six times in a row, some questions/puzzles are just silly.

In my case Captcha was appearing during GOG sales.

^Never talks about the boccia accident, even denies it. It was too traumatic.