I'm not saying the effect on bot traffic is none

Yes I know, I'm not denying that

Even more probable than perception variations is just messed up screen settings

These active captchas instead of methods not visible to the user are worse at hindering nefarious use than regular human use

As usual, the purpose doesn't justify the means. The goal could and should be achieved without this nonsense

Yeah cloudflare gets a similar reaction as a paywall. Fuck this site, I'll go somewhere else

Captchas ain't stopping them anyway

Sorry, I assumed this was already common knowledge. There's another thread fork from a comment.

Tl;dr they're not good at their purpose and cause unneeded annoyance to users.

Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad

I never wanted to spend time memorizing so I cheated by trying to figure out the system the exam was about and then creating answers based on that

Cloudflare and Russia are both bad, take each other down pls