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Whenever I find an obnoxious captcha, I just leave the page after two failed attempt (not really failed, but you know how it is, the system decides that you have to repeat the captcha again).
The problem is with certain services (like GoG) that I've had for years but that lately don't want VPNs because reasons and will keep forcing the captchas indefinitely even when I'm login or redeeming a game. Those are the worst, and honestly? They are only harming themselves with them. I don't buy from them anymore because last time I wanted to login to buy something, I had to go through a least 20 captchas just to login (and, of course, the audio captcha wouldn't work because that would make me "skip" the whole ordeal). After that I decided to go to gog only if there is a game that they are giving away and I really want.