Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse (seconds per site for bot detection and additional "are you human" clicks even without VPNs), now they are bringing the entire Internet down. They don't deserve the position they currently have.
> Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse
No, I did (metaphorically, for the websites I control). And I did it because otherwise those sites are fully offline or unusable thanks to the modern floods of unfilterable scrapers.
Months of piecemeal mitigations, but Attack Mode is the only thing that worked. Blame the LLM gold rush and the many, many software engineers with no ethics and zero qualms about racing to find the bottom of the Internet.
