Glad to see these human checks are working. Wouldn't want any bots reading Phoronix, lookin at pictures.
I wonder why Phoronix enabled such levels of protection? All I can think of is that their forum is pretty toxic. But surely nobody would DDoS phoronix.com just because they were insulted for liking Wayland or, god forbid, Windows.
I got a huge Premium opt-in box (on mobile) with a large button labelled "Disable" and small text to 'continue without'. I'm guessing Disable is to disable this box and subscribe to Premium so I clicked the small text not the large green Disable button.
I didn't have any of that. Just a modal saying to please disable my adblocker. I'm using ublock origin and privacy badger in firefox.