What's the endgame of this increasing arms race? A gated web where you need to log in everywhere? Even more captchas and Cloudflare becoming the gateway to the internet? There must be a better way.
We're somehow still stuck with CAPTCHAs (and other challenges), a 25 years old concept that wastes millions of human hours and billions in infra costs [0].
Maybe a web where you provide your credit card number upfront and pay for each outgoing request.