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The support page both refer to seems to be real though? https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en
Does what it's saying mean that Google Play Services is required to pass their captchas on mobile?
Edit: Found a comment in the Reddit thread from someone claiming to have seen one of these captchas in the wild, which supposedly does do this check but is easily bypassed: