My personal take about such questions has always been that the end user on their device can do whatever they want with the content published and sent to their device from a web server, may process it automatically in any way they wish and send their responses back to the web server. Any attempt to control this process means attempting to wiretap and control the user's endpoint device, and therefore should be prohibited.

Just my 2 cents, obviously lawmakers and jurisdiction may see these issues differently.

I suppose there will be a need for reliable human verification soon, though, and unfortunately I can't see any feasible technical solution that doesn't involve a hardware device. However, a purely legal solution might work well enough, too.

If I understood you correctly I am in the same camp. It is the same reason I have no qualms using archive.ph if you show the full article for google and then me only a partial I am going around the paywall. In a similar fashion I really don’t have an issue with an agent clicking through these checks.