Haven’t for a while. There’s a bunch of open source projects that provide a Captcha and Cloudflare bypass proxy where you just point your scraping through the proxy and it takes care of the challenges. It’s rather trivial to handle nowadays.

A bunch of the torrent trackers are now behind Cloudflare so the pirate community has been maintaining many of these projects in order to enable their autodownloaders like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.

They're more of a speed bump. Deter drive-by scraping and whatever they call script kiddies these days.

There is a product category around this, e.g.:

https://docs.browserbase.com/features/stealth-mode#captcha-s...

Personally, I see this as ToS violation-as-a-service, but I guess ethics left the AI stack space a while ago.