In the large I don't disagree: people have the right to protect themselves. But I think you've made an argument for caching, not for captchas. I'd even be fine

In the large I don't disagree: people have the right to protect themselves. But I think you've made an argument for caching, not for captchas. I'd even be fine with changing cache-control interpretations to "cache this, because if you come back before it's changed we won't serve it to you again". But this stuff is obvious web developer upsell. For what it's worth, it didn't even work. Headless Chrome and some editing of the JavaScript environment was all it took. So it's definitely a ripoff.