Recently, in addition to that, they started to just lock the entire search results page behind a login prompt on some of those bad IP addresses (like YouTube does for some time with the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" prompt). This potentially makes the service less accessible, especially for those using a shared/public computers.
I did not even get this prompt on some VPN IPs, and even no CAPTCHAs at all, even with a free one like given by Firefox.
Has anyone encountered that? I just encountered this today. It's really unfortunate for the internet to become less friendly to signed-out users, especially since AI scrapers starting to "abuse" the internet for their value.