Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

@david_chisnall I don't even care about Cloudflare (and Anubis) checks – those at least rarely last more than a few seconds. What I loathe are the throbbing placeholders that seem to be everywhere now, causing simple text pages to load slower than similarly-looking pages (once the content renders) loaded on dial-up.