You are correct, but Cloudflare is still a cancer on the Internet.

▲ petcat 2 days ago | parent [-]

Rampant bot traffic and scrapers are the real cancer. Until that goes away everyone is going to need cloudflare or some other bot firewall service.

▲ adrian_b 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps that is true, but the Cloudflare anti-bot protection is too stupid and annoying.

They should have used a cookie or something else that does not require asking me every few minutes to prove once more that I am not a bot.

There was a time when Cloudflare had become less intrusive, but for the last months it has begun again to intervene almost each time when opening some pages.

There is no doubt that anti-bot protection can be implemented in a better way than Cloudflare does, but presumably the alternatives would consume more resources on their servers, so probably they choose whatever minimizes their costs, regardless if that ensures maximum discomfort for Internet users.

▲ post-it 2 days ago | parent [-]

You're getting frequent verification requests because you're behaving like a bot. Are you modifying your user agent string or using a VPN?

▲ encom 2 days ago | parent [-]

Who knows what upsets ClownFlare? I'm using Vivaldi on Linux on IPv6 in Denmark with every uBlock filter enabled and Cookie Auto-delete. That seems to confuse and anger CloudFlare and I get CAPTCHA tarpitted constantly.

▲ post-it 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> They should have used a cookie or something else that does not require asking me every few minutes to prove once more that I am not a bot.

> every uBlock filter enabled and Cookie Auto-delete

Hmm

▲ bethekidyouwant 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So you know why.

	▲	encom 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, it could be any, or other, totally normal and reasonable factors. Or maybe I posted too much Cloudflare hate on HN and they singled me out. They're in the walls! `NO CARRIER +CREG: 0,0`

▲ fc417fc802 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those are easy enough to dissuade with readily available PoW solutions. People use CF & co. out of convenience, the exact same reason that most websites load resources from at least half a dozen third parties instead of self hosting.

▲ Duwensatzaj 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It won’t. Some people are perfectly happy to destroy and destroy as long as they get some small portion as profit for themselves.

	▲	sph 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That, ironically, includes Cloudflare. Without rampant bots making the internet worse for everybody, they wouldn't have as much work. And their portion of profit is anything but small.