Not in this case. I wish I could find the actual post, but I recall reading a post on HN recently where a majority of the commenters were claiming that when they even see a Cloudflare verification checkbox that they leave the website.
replyThis makes no sense to me as in my experience, you click the checkbox and then it verifies you without extra steps.
If they want to train an AI they should pay for it like everyone else. Modern bots have zero problems solving these, it's just free training for them.
reply> If they want to train an AI they should pay for it like everyone else.
replyThey'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.