Human traffic really shouldn't be seeing that -- if you want to email me I can try to sort it out to improve our systems.

I see it occasionally. I haven't investigated it properly, but I suspect it's either the outdated version of Safari Technology Preview I use on an old Mac with an old version of macOS, or it might be NordVPN or perhaps a specific one of their endpoints that triggers it.

I get so frustrated with the damn "are you a human" checks for Google search. My default search tool from Brave. I had gotten in the habit of searching quickly for something while reading a web page, etc. Worked find for years. Now some days I get results directly. Many days, though, I am getting 2-3-4 prompts. Getting pretty used to jumping over to Edge to do my searches now. On Starlink in a rural spot. Not sure why Google has flagged me. Do not care I guess. Should probably set my Brave default to Bing, but I do find Google's AI summaries helpful. Just not enough to do a bunch of "find the bicycle" "find the bus" "find the traffic light" captchas. One less Google search customer is not a concern of theirs methinks.

Often, the "are you a human" checks, are to force people to turn off privacy protections, so that they can clearly fingerprint their potential customers. When they sell your information or spy on you, they may want to make sure they have properly identified the target.

Only takes a few clicks most days for the annoying captcha to trigger for me. I never complete it on principle, but maybe that's why it keeps coming back.

Anyway the DDG html search site is next to useless now, and I'm fed up of the AI nags, so I'll be right behind you once I have searched for my coat.