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Depending on the IP reputation as well as the kind of IP address you have, this can happen.

Google also prefers if you have a Google account logged in.

Phone verification services exist to give you a real number for the purpose of passing this kind of verification.

They even have APIs for these services. They make money since they can use the same number to verify different things.

This sounds like some LLM to me

To add onto this, cloudflare switched away from recaptcha a while ago. https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...

I think they now use their own Cloudflare turnstile if I remember correctly, but back then they switched to hcaptcha.

You can still use the audio captcha, but I’m not sure how long that’ll be around.

Canvas seems like it’s not that great. But if you then use Blackboard Ultra it makes canvas look amazing.

OP here. My university was targeted by a recent phishing attack, and these are my findings. I hope this helps others, but this was my first experience with an Adversary in the Middle (AitM) attack.