Because in its "select all pictures containing a car" it had a picture of a woman getting locked in a car trunk and I'm not sure I'm OK with a captcha whose image base appears to include crimes in progress.
(I admit, it's probably the VPN setting it off in the first place, but some of these images are kinda... odd.)
EDIT: So I got the laptop off the corporate network and off VPN and the captchas went away. Must be that, and it must be new since it wasn't doing that yesterday under the same conditions. Anyway, thanks for the thoughts on the issue, it's most appreciated!
(Still, where the hell do they get their images from?)
You already have your answer but as an FYI you can also try disconnecting and reconnecting to VPN in case it's select IPs triggering it. Won't help if the entire available CIDR range(s) are (potentially temporarily) flagged.
Especially if you don't have an option to select region or for US-geographic case, connect out of states like say Canada.
I get it a lot with Google for times when I have to use them, so I reconnect and delete any cookies before retrying. I refuse to submit their captchas if I can help it.
Unfortunately, this won't work for the archive sites. They will prompt no matter what, and with very insufferable implementations of captchas to add insult to injury.
Worth a try, thanks!
Just a follow-up, reconnecting didn't help but I tried moving to a VPN endpoint elsewhere in the country and that worked! Thank you!