Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use

Internet web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced plans to drop support for Google's reCAPTCHA service and move to a new bot detection provider named hCaptcha.

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have added millions of dollars in annual costs" for his company, costs that Cloudflare would have undoubtedly had to unload on its customers.

Makes sense, and any less dependence on Google - especially when it comes to services like this, which people barely notice but do play a role in data collection.