This is how other companies gather fraud signals as well. If you've ever clicked "I am not a robot", it also works on signals like mouse movements. Stripe is following industry best practices.
I haven't used reCAPTCHA, but based on my understanding from Google's documentation[0], there are a few differences:
1. reCAPTCHA doesn't send information until you explicitly call their library. Stripe's library immediately begins reporting to data as soon as the script is loaded.
2. reCAPTCHA is explicit in its documentation that it's collecting behavior about your users. Its sole purpose is to track user behavior, so implementers understand that it does this. Stripe's main purpose is to accept payment information, and it is currently not transparent about how it collects user behavior to achieve that. I don't believe that most implementers understand the nature of Stripe's data collection.
No. The summary is that by tearing down the woman lead, women everywhere see what will happen to them if they achieve a measure of recognition on the internet.
In the 2 comments you made to me, you're assuming my premise is to criticize her over her gender.
My comment would have remained the same if Dr. Bouman identified as male. The age of an individual when they get their PhD is somewhere around 27-29 (depends on when they start grad school.. it's usually about 5 years) People with more experience realize it's better to work and recognize the team rather than not. Kids fresh out of school just don't have that experience.