[tor-talk] CloudFlare blog post

parazyd parazyd at dyne.org
Wed Mar 30 15:04:20 UTC 2016


On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Martijn Grooten wrote:

> CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince just posted this blog post
> 
>   https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/  
> 
> which I think is worth a read for people on this list.
> 
> TL;DR: CloudFlare is serving CAPTHAs to Tor users not by design but as a
> consequence of the way their IP reputation system works. CloudFlare is
> willing to help, for example by having the CAPTCHA moved to the client
> side and by making it easier for their customers to register .onion
> addresses.
> 
> NB I'm not affiliated with CloudFlare in any way. I too have been
> frustrated by their CAPTCHAs.

Heh, eve that link gives me the lovely captcha :D

One more step
Please complete the security check to access blog.cloudflare.com

It's really a Google thing, helping them create pattern recognition
algorithms.
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