I use VPNs quite heavily, and whenever I Google something, I get greeted with a captcha. The worst part about this is that it doesn't stop on the first puzzle - I see upwards of 5 puzzles at a time, and if I'm really lucky (/s), the pieces of the puzzle will load slowly too (eg., you keep tapping the pieces with a fire hydrant and a new one appears in its place, and you cannot submit until all fire hydrants have been selected). These puzzles are really shit and often ambiguous (traffic lights, stairs, bikes in a picture of a bicycle) so I may be doing it wrong and that's why I keep getting more and more puzzles.
There are some patterns though:
1. On Safari mobile, I see the captcha every time I search for something.
2. On Firefox desktop, I see it the first time I search, and then it prompts again after x hours/minutes.
Curious to learn more about what affects this, and how I can improve the search experience without disabling my VPN.