wget isn't supposed to work on these sites. They've chosen Cloudflare and asked them to do this.

That’s exactly the part that people forget: all these policies are decided to be applied by the website owners. It started with DDoS blocking and they just extended it to more things.

I feel like people here are forgetting the fact just how hostile bad actors on the internet are / can be.

That brings up opt-in vs opt-out tho, and last time I looked, Cloudflare defaulted to automatically signing website owners for it. That is to say, if you just mash next, Cloudflare blocks "AI", whatever that means.

How website owners enable infinite captcha?