Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand (opens in new tab)

I use Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Managed Challenge") on simonwillison.net/search/ to prevent crawlers from following every single possible combination of my faceted search UI. This was getting pretty annoying, since I had to wait for the challenge every time I searched my own site. I don't particularly care about regular ?q=term...

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