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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The point is, if that sort of global cookie is set, it will be a abused to get around protections, making it worthless in the first place. It's not even hard in that situation. You set the cookie, add it your scraper, and then your scraper bypasses the checkbox everywhere.

That's ignoring the privacy implications of cross-site cookies, which should be disabled if you care about your privacy even a little bit.

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