For sure, @ricci.

While I can definitely see how site operators are in a bind (a world of badly behaved web scraping bots, made far worse by parasitic training of #genAI; more useless traffic means more cost to the site operator and worse site performance for real users)

the current workaround, of putting more and more of the web in #CloudFlare hands; of insulting the real human visitors; of punishing legitimate #VPN users; of making the site worse for humans because of the bad behaviour of bots, is no solution.

More and more often, I treat automated “prove you're a human” insults as a fuck-you gate and just close the tab.