This is how it's going. Half the websites I go to have Cloudflare captchas guarding them at this point. Every time I visit StackOverflow I get a 5 second wait while Cloudflare decides I'm kosher.
That kind of user experience is one that I've seen a lot on HN, and every time, without fail, it's because they're doing something that makes them look like a bot, and then being all Surprised Pikachu when they get treated like a bot by websites.