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A lot of websites want "bot defense" due to high volume scrapers, and that "bot defense" often also ends up blocking low-volume wget/curl and polite crawlers like Common Crawl's CCBot.
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Cloudflare can verify certain bots when they come from known ip addresses. So if your site is using cloudflare it can let CCBot if it has done the verification.
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cloudflare routinely denies my human-piloted browser now, on many sites.
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you're not a bot thats irrelevant
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> I think that nobody would care if I use wget or curl for few pages

If only you were the only one doing it...

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