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You're right of course wrt to Google serving reCAPTCHA, in this case you'd just be providing plausible deniability if Google and Mallory-ISP were to collude to

• lucb1e 10y ago
  > users on google fiber take note. This is why I got quite scared when I first heard of Google Fiber. It's in Google's interest to provide good, fast and cheap service: they will gain more customers and more people will be able to use more Internet services (many of which are from Google or use Google -- adwords, analytics, etc.). Thus they provide speeds for prices that are very hard to compete with for normal ISPs, since normal ISPs don't have the luxury of being the world's most popular, well, so many things (search engine, mapping service, email service, ad service, etc.). If one company knows everything about you and controls a big enough stake in your life, that sounds very scary to me. Not because Google is bad, but because it's one company able to control many basic services.