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The checks are to make sure you're using an actual browser and not some sort of automated program like curl to make 100k requests.

Nah they’re to individually identify your unique computer.

I don't play the sauce game with reputation managers. And they haven't ended captcha.

Tor is notoriously slow and bandwidth limited. That's not the reason.

5Tbps of botnet bandwidth isn't the only way to do a DDoS attack. L7 attacks can be pulled off with far less bandwidth.