Google reCAPTCHA do far more than checking location and IP. If you want to pass it easily, use google chrome and login to your google account.
I don't use Chrome and I don't log in to any Google account, but I can solve a few dozen reCaptcha a day, they don't cause me any problems yet - although I've been completely blocked several times in the past because Google put me on a blacklist assuming that I am a bot.
What I have noticed is that the reCaptcha difficulty levels on different pages are different, so on some pages (faucets) it is solved very easily, while on others it takes a few tries and has those irritating images that are repeated several times.
matt007, if you have the opportunity try hCaptcha, it is on most faucets today.