The captcha is nice, and I completely understand the reason for it.
But it is still a yawning hole in my privacy.

On my machine, I completely block the google.com and many related domains via the hosts file, so no application can access it.
Took me a while to notice the tiny phrase "Image Verification" on the left. There was nothing next to it, even when I temporarily enabled javascript for the domain pascalgamedevelopment.com -- so I figured it should be something in my blacklist.

Usually I just leave such sites and forget them, but... I have my account here for near a decade, did not want to lose it. So I used a virtual machine I keep for unsafe operations -- like allowing Adobe stuff to connect to the network or installing that Google Chrome trojan -- to reset my password.
Hope that captcha does not come up again. Because (just great) Google now knows I have an account on this website.