It gives me the new version as well, but it seems google is convinced that I am a bot. Getting a regular captcha after clicking the button and I have to say that this is a lot worse of an experience than regular old captchas. Now I have to wait for a few seconds after clicking a button, then still solve a captcha.

Hopefully it gets better with time.

Do you happen to browse incognito or with 3rd-party cookies blocked?

Looks like the new version needs an active and valid google cookie in order to tell if you're a robot or not.

Try this one:

http://nomorecaptchas.com/

It's very similar. I might go as far as saying that Google copied them.

I attempted tabbing to the checkbox and pressing spacebar (not moving the mouse at all) and it worked just fine. Impressive. But I guess the tell-all is how secure it is against bots. not how easy it is for humans to get through. For all we know it could just be letting everyone through :P

It worked for me, though Google thought I was a robot at first.

Probably because lots of users are currently visiting the link.

Got recaptcha'd, probably because of Ghostery.