>The real frustrating part is that Cloudflare's "definition" of suspicious keeps changing and expanding.

That's... exactly expected? It's a cat and mouse game. People running botnets or AI scrapers aren't diligently setting the evil bit on their packets.

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jagged-chisel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s obviously because they’re not being “evil”

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lxgr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So the stable state here is all humans eventually being locked out? (Bots are getting better every day; I doubt the same is true for all humans, including those with weird browsers or networks unwilling to install some dystopian Cloudflare "Internet passport".)

But hey, at least some bots are also not making it past Cloudflare!

	▲	WatchDog an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The inevitability is that these kinds of services just won't be offered without identifying yourself. Claude's free tier requires a phone number just to try it.
	▲	small_scombrus an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> So the stable state here is all humans eventually being locked out? Yep. The most easy to implement stable state for any system where you're aiming to prevent misuse is to just prevent use