Every time there’s a Hacker News thread about bots, bot detection, or CAPTCHAs, a familiar complaint shows up: people using VPNs, ad blockers, Firefox forks, or privacy tools get bombarded with CAPTCHAs or blocked entirely. It feels like modern anti-bot systems are punishing users just for trying to
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