Same here. It says please wait while verifying.

I just checked, and it's confirmed: I am definitely using a web browser. It seems my browser and this site have a different definition of web standards, however.

So exhausting to be surrounded by people with a paranoid, irrational fear of robots, who don't give a shit who they harm in their zeal to lash out and strike the evil bots.

Not by tier 1 transit providers. You pay those to deliver your packets, no matter what.