dksone: This is seriously crap.
First of all, the impact of captchas on spammers and scammer is limited. There are many services out there which offers them api to fill captcha at an extremelly low price (around $0.005/captcha), so its just a matter for them to adapt whatever bot they are using.
And you actually picked the worst captcha service: google's recaptcha.
recaptcha is not just against "using a very old or very remote browser". Their difficulty is based on how much private information google know of you. If you don't let google spy on you, you get a captcha which tend to be hard, often downright impossible, to read.
Plus, by picking google, you effectively delegate the site security to a company whose only purpose is to sell the private information of users - with a service which, unlike analytics and google api, can't be block by users without risking blocking access to the whole site.
Please gog, stop using reCAPTCHA. Implement some proper, more effective, self hosted heuristics and flood control, and a 2-step authentication instead.
Attached are the recaptcha I get.
Thanks for this, I agree wholeheartedly. It's a really lazy solution that compromises user privacy. I am already annoyed that GOG.com uses Facebook, Google+ and Twitter plugins as well as Google Analytics. This is one of the more important reasons why I refuse to use GOG Galaxy which loads the same website with those plugins, but without browser extensions like Ghostery. This is so depressing.