Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
Starting yesterday, I have been getting Cloudflare's hCaptcha image identification quizzes on every site that uses them. Googling the issue indicates that the IP address range may have been blacklisted, if say my laptop (a Mac that doesn't visit any shady sites) or my router has been compromised and is now running a botnet or something.It seems unlikely because my phone can access sites on wifi fine, and again my Mac doesn't appear to have any malware.Could it be that the outage is somehow relate to Cloudflare putting these captchas up as a precautionary measure?