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We don't host web sites. What nag screens are you talking about?

dexterdog 8y ago
Those "cloudflare loading" screens that come up when visiting some low-traffic sites. It's probably more common for people using privacy blockers and browser containers to block tracking. I see it at least a few times per day and I get captchas on almost any site that uses them (regardless of being behind cloudflare).
- jgrahamc 8y ago
  That's "I'm Under Attack Mode" which is used by sites (mostly smaller ones) to protect against small DDoS attacks or scrapers.
  - mindslight 8y ago
    ... or individual browsers taking small steps to preserve their privacy. I obviously don't know how many Cloudflared sites I visit that don't pop up the nag. And Cloudflare's nag is certainly nicer than Google's more pervasive help-us-build-a-T-800 or Akamai's "just get lost". But that mode seemingly activates on light browsing just because it's coming from a slightly-less-trackable VPS address (non-shared), and that is a problem.
  - stevenjohns 8y ago
    I'd just like to mention that this service saved me once. I have a small low-end box and one of the sites I hosted (that belonged to a YouTube personality) was DDOS'ed for a while, it kept taking the server down. A combination of crafty server configuration and enabling the "Under Attack" mode helped me deal with it.
    - jgrahamc 8y ago
      Great. Glad to hear it!
dmix 8y ago
Captchas. Cloudflare made Tor unusable. This might have changed but in the past it made using Tor for anything beyond onion sites extremely annoying.
- epse 8y ago
  Though admittedly, if you get a lot of requests from one ip and you can't really know if they are legit or not, what would you do?
  - penagwin 8y ago
    I don't have the numbers, but from what I've heard the amount of legitimate traffic from TOR is rather small compared to the heaps of bots and abuse. Yes there's the argument that TOR provides protection for those in apressive states, but given the pros/cons of blocking TOR altogether I can at least understand the reasoning.

Those "cloudflare loading" screens that come up when visiting some low-traffic sites. It's probably more common for people using privacy blockers and browser containers to block tracking. I see it at least a few times per day and I get captchas on almost any site that uses them (regardless of being behind cloudflare).

jgrahamc 8y ago
That's "I'm Under Attack Mode" which is used by sites (mostly smaller ones) to protect against small DDoS attacks or scrapers.
- mindslight 8y ago
  ... or individual browsers taking small steps to preserve their privacy. I obviously don't know how many Cloudflared sites I visit that don't pop up the nag. And Cloudflare's nag is certainly nicer than Google's more pervasive help-us-build-a-T-800 or Akamai's "just get lost". But that mode seemingly activates on light browsing just because it's coming from a slightly-less-trackable VPS address (non-shared), and that is a problem.
- stevenjohns 8y ago
  I'd just like to mention that this service saved me once. I have a small low-end box and one of the sites I hosted (that belonged to a YouTube personality) was DDOS'ed for a while, it kept taking the server down. A combination of crafty server configuration and enabling the "Under Attack" mode helped me deal with it.
  - jgrahamc 8y ago
    Great. Glad to hear it!

dmix 8y ago

Captchas. Cloudflare made Tor unusable. This might have changed but in the past it made using Tor for anything beyond onion sites extremely annoying.

epse 8y ago
Though admittedly, if you get a lot of requests from one ip and you can't really know if they are legit or not, what would you do?
- penagwin 8y ago
  I don't have the numbers, but from what I've heard the amount of legitimate traffic from TOR is rather small compared to the heaps of bots and abuse. Yes there's the argument that TOR provides protection for those in apressive states, but given the pros/cons of blocking TOR altogether I can at least understand the reasoning.