Ask HN: Why are more of you doing this to your visitors?

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I believe this is part of a DDOS-mitigation method. It's not that anyone wants to do it. Rather, it's a survival mechanism.

Surprisingly it's often the same crap that originates the DDoS (or encourages it) that has this protection enabled. Cesspools like Hackforums, etc.