I hated everyone who enabled the cloudflare validation thing on their website, because it was blocked for months (I got stuck on that captcha that was refusing my Firefox). Eventually they fixed it but it was really annoying.
The CF verification page still appears far too often in some geographic regions. It's such an irritant that I just close the tab and leave when I see it. It's so bad that seeing the Anubis page instead is actually a big relief! I consider the CF verification and its enablers as a shameless attack the open web - a solution nearly as bad as the problem it tries to solve.
Forget esoteric areas, I'm an average American guy who gets them running from a residential IP or cell IP. It even happens semi-frequently on my iPhone which is insane. I guess I must have "bot-like" behavior in my browsing, even from a cell.
I noticed that Google happily puts you on its shitlist as soon as you use any advanced parameters on your searches, such as “filetype:” or “inurl:” or “site:”.
This probably has something to do with it. I probably tend to move faster than average and am "bot-like" in that I sort of "scrape": search for something and quickly open all relevant tabs to review, page through them, search again. If while I'm going through I have something else I'd like to find, I'll fire up yet another tab and pop open all relevant tabs from that. Etc.
I am still unable to pass CF validation on my desktop (sent to infinite captcha loop hell). Nowadays I just don't bother with any website that uses it.
Too many sites that used to be good installed that shit. And weird part is that on desktop only Chromium fails to pass the captcha, no issues on Firefox. But Chromium is my main browser and sometimes I'm too lazy/uncomfortable opening 2nd browser for those sites.
