I use a VPN, for perfectly legitimate reasons (I travel a lot, and most internet services assume that your IP address also indicates your nationality, citizensh

I use a VPN, for perfectly legitimate reasons (I travel a lot, and most internet services assume that your IP address also indicates your nationality, citizenship, language, bank account country, etc. Being able to change IP source country is vital). Some VPN exit addresses have obviously been flagged as "bad" by Cloudflare and I get challenged with CAPTCHAs from some countries. It's an interesting experience, but luckily my VPN provider has enough exits that I can usually switch to one that has better reputation with Cloudflare. Obviously, none of this is helping the internet be a better place from my point of view. I get that it's part of the ongoing fight against bots and spam, but it always feels so arbitrary. IP addresses are interchangeable, folks - they say nothing about the nature of the request. Or rather, for a large majority they do, but there's us minority that don't obey those rules and resent getting caught up in it.