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zombotabout 1 hour ago
So I got an Incident ID and some captcha mumbo jumbo for attempting to browse that site. Apparently they don't like visitors. Feeling generous today, I decided to not inconvenience them further.
random317 minutes ago
perhaps it's your IP/network. I'm not getting any of that
zombot8 minutes ago
Looks like the effect was temporary, it's gone now.
quantummagic44 minutes ago
Same. Not going through a captcha for a random link.
sanjayjc18 minutes ago
I too detest captchas. I found the paper elsewhere:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08804

zombot33 minutes ago
Ironically, if you throw up road blocks for human visitors, the only ones who take the abuse will be bots.