Even if recaptcha is solvable by bots, what you’re effectively doing is making it more expensive to run these bots at scale, which is a deterrent and necessary.

Now there’s definitely ways to do it without tracking user data, but I doubt they’ll give up that control without being forced

This is an article about the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI

Edit: I recommend

Yet spammers find my clients’ contact forms and send dozens of emails an hour until I put on recapcha and then it stops.

I would love an alternative that isn’t swapping one insidious company with another.