Have you tried using another search engine like DuckDuckGo?

There should be an extension to automatically filter the reCAPTCHA-using sites out of the results of the search engines.

I think GP is saying that Google itself is presenting the captchas, not the Google results they click. I've had it happen a couple of times when using VPNs before.

I might not have been clear; sometimes when using a VPN, you can't even load Google search results until you submit a captcha. If you go to "google.com", it will make you enter a captcha before you can search anything.

Ah that's fair, Google captchas VPN users, but I don't think it's recaptcha, it doesn't look exactly the same.

Having done this in a previous life, they do this because they fight against scrapping their search results.

You learn to derive some satisfaction from feeding it inaccurate labels.