My comment was poorly phrased. My point is that this can quickly lead to legal problems, when such a captcha restricts your access to something you do have a le

My comment was poorly phrased. My point is that this can quickly lead to legal problems, when such a captcha restricts your access to something you do have a legal right to. Say I buy a new phone and it stops working after 3 weeks. I want to contact the seller, but they only have a web contact form and I fail to get past the captcha. This is already getting very close to being a huge legal problem, and the only reason why it's probably not that bad is that technically that website is supposed to give at least a contact address so I could just send them a letter which, while hugely inconvenient, is legally still a good enough way for me to contact them. I'm sure if you spend a while longer you could find a few cases where the problem is even worse (also considering more than just one legal system). So what I should have said: Using this technology to block users from the wrong endpoints could end up being illegal. For context: I'm talking German laws here.