This was probably a bonus of using them, but they did stop bots. They aren’t meant to stop the sophisticated AI we have now, they are meant to stop swarms of “dumb” bots from creating spam accounts, ddosing servers, etc

A few bots accessing your site doesn’t matter. A million bots do

What kind of bum finances a fucking pizza lmao?

I always thought of an excavator lol

It reminded me of Regular Car Reviews, if you’ve ever seen that.