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Disclosure, I've not run a website since my health issues began, however, Cloudflare has an AI firewall, Cloudflare is super cheap (also: unsure if the AI firewall is on the free tier, however I would be surprised if it is not). Ignoring the recent drama about a couple incidents they've had (because this would not matter for a personal blog), why not use this instead?

Just curious. Hoping to be able to work on a website again someday, if I ever regain my health/stamina/etc back.


Cloudflare has created a bit of grief with regular users getting spammed with "prove your human" requests.
Yes, e.g: I'll immediately close any attempt at Cloudfare's verification.
Out of interest, why that extreme? Just out of principle or some other reason?
My main terminal uses a PiHole with 120,000+ blacklist rules (not Cloudfare specifically — I allow most CDN's). This includes an entire blackout of Google/Facebook products, as well as most tracking/analytics services.

For example, I do not allow reCAPTCHA.

As a similar commentor noted, when just casually browsing I don't really have any desire to try hard to read random content. Should I absolutely need to access some information garden-walled behind Cloudfare: I have another computer that uses much less restrictive black-listing.

Not OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway
Can confirm. I have been blocked plenty of times and it's really annoying.
All the solutions are going to have a few false positives, sadly.
Or a lot if you use privacy extensions.

Cloudflare's automatic checks (before you get the captcha) must be pretty close to what ad peddlers do.

All the best with getting back on your feet.

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