By Alex Mercer
It sounds like a joke, or a Black Mirror pitch rejected for being "too mean." But in the hidden corners of the internet, this is a very real, very addictive, and deeply unsettling genre of browser-based game. The concept is brutally simple. You open a webpage. It looks exactly like Google’s reCAPTCHA v2: the familiar checkbox, the rotating images, the ticking clock. Infinite Captcha Game
(Link withheld for ethical reasons.) But be warned: the first level is free. The last level doesn’t exist. And somewhere, in a server farm in Iowa, a machine is waiting for you to misclick. By Alex Mercer It sounds like a joke,