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Ask HN: Why do Tor users have to solve captchas to read HN?

• raghuvamz 11y ago
  i was also wondering the reason for the same!
• andreicon 11y ago
  because cloudflare
  • iqonik 11y ago
    Yes, but why has Hacker News chosen to force this upon Tor users? Given the audience, I think they should whitelist as per these instructions: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor- https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
    • mtmail 11y ago
      > they should whitelist To get the attention of the moderators email hn@ycombinator.com