In some cases, it seems the companies deploy them to coerce and punish: 'logged out, did you? you deserve this captcha for trying to thwart our tracking, peasan

In some cases, it seems the companies deploy them to coerce and punish: 'logged out, did you? you deserve this captcha for trying to thwart our tracking, peasant! work this useless problem for us for free!' Looking at you, Meetup.