Comment by palmotea

> It’s crazy how much of the internet and our app stacks depend on proprietary hosted service integrations that will almost certainly disappear or break in time. Sure it’s convenient to get off the ground with but it doesn’t make sense to me to gate your functionality on a third party that can easily break or slip out from under you.

At least with captchas, it's somewhat understandable with the arms-race aspect. The third party does the work of engaging in the arms race, so you don't have to, but the tradeoff is what you describe.