There are a number of sites I frequent but don't log in to or register for an account.
Every single one of them has an absurd number of captchas, or I see the cloudflare protection thing come up for first for 3 seconds.
So while hypothetically it may be true that they don't have to do it, they will. It's not even clear to me that Firefox could implement it too... so do I have to switch back to Chrome (or [barf] Safari?)? Dunno. I can't predict the future, but you'd have to be in some sort of denial to not see where this is going.
> At the end of the day bots are a real issue
Bots are fucking awesome. We should all have bots, out there doing the boring stuff, bringing back the goodies to us. If someone tells you that bots are bad, they're lying to you because they're afraid that you might find out how much you'd want one.