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there are countless services that do what CloudFlare is doing

but not a single one has the false positive rate that cloudflare has

cloudflare only accepts the very standart users, and locks a lot of others out. and then they offer no convenient way to prove you're a legitimate user, to access the website.

and they have to fix it, because they sell their protection to admins who don't want to set it up themselves. They have the knowledge and are tasked to do that




That is not at all true. Many other WAF or similar anti-abuse configurations are much more ham-fisted. It is not uncommon for some to block entire countries, or block any IP ranges belonging to known VPNs, proxies, and Tor.




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