I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge.

Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.

The annoying thing about cloudflare is that most of the time once you’re blocked: you’re blocked.

There’s literally no way for you to bypass the block if you’re affected.

Its incredibly scary, I once had a bad useragent (without knowing it) and half the internet went offline, I couldn’t even access documentation or my email providers site, and there was no contact information or debugging information to help me resolve it: just a big middle finger for half the internet.

I haven’t had issues with any sites using Anubis (yet), but I suspect there are ways to verify that you’re a human if your browser fails the automatic check at least.

I'm on an older system here, and both Cloudflare and Anubis entirely block me out of sites. Once you start blocking actual users out of your sites, it simply has gone too far. At least provide an alternative method to enter your site (e.g. via login) that's not hampered by erroneous human checks. Same for the captchas where you help train AIs by choosing out of a set of tiny/ noisy pictures. I often struggle for 5 to 10 minutes to get past that nonsense. I heard bots have less trouble.

Basically we're already past the point where the web is made for actual humans, now it's made for bots.

It's the other way around for me sometimes — I've never had issue with Anubis, I frequently get it with CF-protected sites.

(Not to mention all the sites which started putting country restrictions in on their generally useful instruction articles etc — argh)

I’m planning a trip to France right now, and it seems like half the websites in that country (for example, ratp.fr for Paris public transport info) require me to check a CloudFlare checkbox to promise that I am a human. And of those that don’t, quite a few just plain lock me out...

I get one basically every time I go to gitlab.com on Firefox.

It is easy to pass the challange, but it isn't any better than Anubis.

Even when not on VPN, if a site uses the CloudFlare interstitials, I will get it every single time - at least the "prove you're not a bot" checkbox. I get the full CAPTCHA if I'm on a VPN or I change browsers. It is certainly enough to annoy me. More than Anubis, though I do think Anubis is also annoying, mainly because of being nearly worthless.

For me both are things that mostly show up for 1-3 seconds, then get replaced by the actual website. I suspect that's the user experience of 99% of people.

If you fall in the other 1% (e.g. due to using unusual browsers or specific IP ranges), cloudflare tends to be much worse

You must be on a good network. You should run one of those "get paid to share your internet connection with AI companies" apps. Since you're on a good network you might make a lot of money. And then your network will get cloudflared, of course.

We should repeat this until every network is cloudflared and everyone hates cloudflare and cloudflare loses all its customers and goes bankrupt. The internet would be better for it.