Comment by fake-name

I get that, my point is it's the problem.

They solve the DDOS issue by requiring JS captchas (which fundamentally breaks the way the internet should work), rather then serving a cache of the page to reduce load on the real host.

Requiring JS doesn't disambiguate between well behaved automated (or headless. I used a custom proxy for a lot of my content browsing) user agents and malicious users, it breaks /all/ of them.