What gets me is how much the people who advocate for the "open web" have completely incorporated the values of Facebook and Google.

Like there's that anime girl who harasses you when you visit so many open source web sites that just continues the pattern of being harassed by cookie dialogs and consent dialogs and pop-up ads and being asked for your email address and of course there is Wikipedia which is doing more and more of the same.

Another web is possible but web populists don't really believe it.

Just to get started, bots have been better at filling out CAPCHTAs than humans for a long time. I knew someone who got his site hacked by Russians circa 2008 because he published a neural network in freakin PHP that could read them. Anubis causes humans stress, slows down task completion, probably raises peoples blood pressure, and cumulatively causes a great deal of harm to users the same way Cloudflare's system does. Bots can use async or virtual threads and not even have to hold on to a stack while they are waiting for this bullshit, clicking on buses, etc.

CAPTCHAs, cookie banners, and of the that crap should be an automatic F grade on WCAG and should make web sites immediately liable for ADA lawsuits with triple damages.