General Discussion • Re: wtf? almost every forum and website is on cloudflare now?

This last month I've increasingly encountered more and more different and various captchas everywhere! (Mostly cloudflare, but also recaptcha on YT

I never encountered "recaptcha" on YouTube even though I have no account on YouTube. But since I am on YT multiple times a day and night, if a team at YT is in charge for bot lookout, maybe just maybe they are smart enough to see my IP address and this tells them I am not a bot.

That's the weird part. I have an account on youtube, and am also watching stuff day and night. While my IP changes occasionally, and has been for a long time (years), it's only these last 30 days that I've gotten googles ReCaptcha like 5-10 times. Just doing what I usually do..