Not just tracking cookies, but browser fingerprinting.
Not just Google, but now Cloudflare.
Captcha was never good at stopping bots. It was always used to identify who is a human. In other words exactly the opposite of what you think.
Edit: because I see confusion, maybe a language barrier, here is an example of what people think it is and how it works: https://youtube.com/shorts/rme6PT7-CRI?si=iGx_v7Qp7oYqJQ3S Which is wrong on many levels.
Here is a better explanation of what I meant: https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI?si=viw0FEMffyhyba9v
Hope this explains it better than my original comment.
I can personally confirm it very much did help curb botting issues on my website.
Seconded, websites with logins are practically unusable without the tool. We had to disable it once and our database got flooded by unverified accounts. Absolutely awful.
I have edited my original comment, but this will explain it much better and showcase my statement much better: https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI?si=viw0FEMffyhyba9v
That doesn’t make sense. There are only bots and humans. Identifying humans is stopping bots, and vice versa.
I have edited my comment. You can check this video which will explain it much better than myself: https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI?si=viw0FEMffyhyba9v