I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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    12 minutes ago

    It’s proportional to the amount of rude AI crawling, from what I’ve heard.

    The industry has put every reasonably accessible piece of human writing in their datasets, and are scrounging for the remaining little bits, now. Old, obscure, obsolete books nobody ever reads are apparently a hot item. Your latest blog post is probably worth some fraction of a penny.