This makes no sense to me as in my experience, you click the checkbox and then it verifies you without extra steps.
They're paying for electricity and taking data without paying for it. It seems to me that they're paying for it exactly the same way everyone else in AI did.
oh is that why my raspberry pi 5 can't browse websites anymore without freezing for a minute.
I get this crap when browsing on desktop a lot as well, principally because I stubbornly use Firefox as my main browser, and I habitually use a VPN when I connect my laptop to unsecured or even secured-but-accessible-to-large-numbers-of-people WiFi networks.
Like, seriously, bot detection "specialists", fuck off: I'm not a bot but your bot detection software IS shit, and I DO resent your shit software draining my battery and getting in my way. Learn to do your jobs properly, will you?
And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobody made you. So go and find a different job if you're incapable of doing the one you have.
And if it's so "hard" why does your entire solution seem to be predicated on anyone's a bot if they're not running Chrome, or they are running an adblocker, or they appear to be from an unusual country that doesn't match their system language? Seriously, is this the level of sophistication you hacks operate at? To solve your "hard" problem?
You are extremely lame. Get out of my way.
I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...
Unfortunately, if you let all the bots in, they overwhelm your servers, and then nobody can access the website.
I had some git hosting up for a while, and was serving hundreds of qps and several terabytes per month. I can only imagine want significant sites are serving.