[tor-talk] Protest Blocking Tor via CloudFlare

spencerone at openmailbox.org spencerone at openmailbox.org
Wed Mar 11 06:17:29 UTC 2015


> grarpamp[at]gmail.com:
> CloudFlare throws up a captcha with a comment field
> for a message that goes to the site owner.
> So all Tor users fill in the comment, with
> perhaps even the same generic message...
> 
> "Stop blocking us."
> Which naturally makes site inquire their logs to see who
> "us" is, and as byproduct discovers that your clickstream
> was actually legit and not whatever they thought they were
> blocking.
> 
> or
> 
> "I'm a Tor user, stop blocking me."
> Which is more informative and personal.
> 
> It would seem someone here could write
> FF/TBB greasemonkey for those too lazy to fill in
> that field.
> 

I usually write:

"Robots are people, too!"

Since this reverse proxy stuff prevents DAOs from functioning, though I 
am not too sure this is in protest.

Wordlife,
Spencer



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