Captcha and proving I am not a robot

[marimba]

Description of the issue: I don’t know if this pertains to the browser or just the Brave Search. For some time now I am asked 20 to 50 times per day to prove that I am not a robot by moving a round thing to a circle. It feels tiring and harassing to have to do it with just seconds apart very often. Also this morning I had a new window of a new kind of Captcha that showed a blank thumbnail and asked me to submit proof that I am not a robot but in deed a human… and It was impossible. The button did not lead me anywhere. And also the small text underneath where I could ask to go to old sort of captcha did not work, no matter how many times I tried. I do use another and known VPN but the setting is in my appropriate country. How do I solve this?
Brave Version (check About Brave):
Version 1.45.127 Chromium: 107.0.5304.110

Operating System: MAC OS Big Sur

[mrjabush]

I am in the same boat. Every time I do a Brave search, I have to wait for the PoW Captcha, before I get results. An earlier response said that, if I clear out Brave completely, that would fix it. So I did. I undefined everything, right down to deinstallation and fresh install of Brave. I am STILL getting prompted by the new Captcha EVERY TIME!
This is unacceptable for me, as well as for the original poster @marimba .

Please fix this and let us all know, because this is driving me away from Brave after years of happy privacy. I would rather suffer Chrome than suffer this madness!

URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED!

[289wk]

rCAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA ← Google
hCAPTCHA ← used by Cloudflare

hCAPTCHA related/Cloudflare Cops is/are involved with Brave Search.

I use a VPN. The Cloudflare Cops previously got in the way, every time that I used Brave Search Engine Operators in search criteria - example: news site:ie ← trying to see news articles re Ireland. But lately (July 2025), I have not encountered that Cloudflare problem.

Observing the Brave Browser > Developer Tools > Network window, a “Cloudflare frenzy” of repeatedly [looping] trying to get satisfaction, might stir up some of what you find: CPU.

I have seen the Cloudflare Cops tenaciously hanging on for “I don’t know exactly what” sometimes, before / during / after checking one of their “Are you a bot?” -type checkboxes. And I wonder, if you leave that window / tab and try another, then several Cloudflare processes may keep gnawing away?

Maybe something like the following, is a cause:

Cloudflare’s Turnstile - an excerpt:

When a bot is detected, Turnstile uses “proof of work” to instruct the browser to waste computer resources, for example by executing useless code on the CPU or filling up memory in an attempt to reduce the number of requests emitted per second by each physical machine running a bot.