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> how does the audio play without JavaScript?

The HTML <audio> tag.

> Who serves that?

Whoever serves the captcha. Often that's Google, because they run ReCAPTCHA.

> How about the fact that the standard workflow just failed? If that is a bug, it would be fixed - right now, it's a feature, no?

The bug was fixed immediately. As the blog post says: "The bug was acknoweledged by the developers and fixed promptly."



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