No kidding, I am at the point where if I get a CAPTCHA, I just bail from the site. Seems they do not want my eyeballs.

But there is Gemini (the real Gemini not the stolen name google uses) and gopher. There are decent content there plus news sites. You just need to look, similar to what we did in the 90s.

You can use dillo w/plugins for Gemini/Gopher or Lynx for Gopher or lagrange/amfora for Gemini or Emacs Elpher for Gemini and Gopher. Also deedum on Cell Phones.

Some links:

gopher://magical.fish/

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70

gopher://sdf.org/1/

https://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher

gemini://gemi.dev/

gemini://gem.sdf.org/

gemini://sdf.org/

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/

Forgot to mention, USENET is still around and now that Google disconnected google groups from USENET, spam has decreased a lot.