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"Visiting a single Internet Web page" is considerably more involved than that. In practice, it means making a request to the DNS servers and running Javascript that's injected by the CDN/proxy which "verifies" (runs some heuristics) that you're allowed to load that page.

It's like a restaurant that complies with a local food access requirement to be open at a certain time... but only by having a drive-through that requires you to not just be a human being, but also to drive a car to get to the restaurant.



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