> Your compensation is access to the website that uses Recaptcha
Which is one of the reasons why the presence of reCAPTCHA is strong push to avoid that site.
> since you're here and HN uses Recaptcha on its register/login form, it seems like the compensation was adequate.
Perhaps so. I don't remember doing a CAPTCHA to sign up, but I don't dispute that I did it. However, I've never been presented with one after signup. If I was, I wouldn't be here.
