I've not seen one in the wild yet, but I will refuse to scan them. TIL I am a robot.

I can't tell if there's a way to deal with this from the screenshot, but that looks like an accessibility nightmare. How is a blind person supposed to accomplish that task?

What if I don't have a mobile phone? What if I do, but the camera is broken? What if... eh, fuck Google.

The site has a few variant domains, unsure why

Because their domains keep getting blocked, because corporate media don’t like paywall bypasses, and they have deep pockets.

I don't trust this site after They tried to DDOS someone's blog, and becauas of that Wikipedia banned this archiver.
Ever since then I have been sticking to archive.org.

I had one of these last week. Refreshed the page and got a standard image-based captcha. It won't be long before this QR/device attestation shit becomes the norm though.

The site itself is a bit trash, considering the captcha-adjacent DDoSing antics the owner got up to a few months ago. Unfortunately, complaints aside, sometimes it's the easiest (or even only) way to access a lot of otherwise-inaccessible content.