I've noticed the same thing. It's pretty annoying.
The original premise of Recaptcha was: "Do good by helping digitize books".
Now it's: "Provide some free work classifying images so we can improve our commercial products, because the owner of the website is too cheap to pay for spam detection tech."
The original premise of Recaptcha was: "Do good by helping digitize books".
Now it's: "Provide some free work classifying images so we can improve our commercial products, because the owner of the website is too cheap to pay for spam detection tech."