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I thought HN of all places would understand this: The Cloudflare captcha is not for DDoS. It's for the rest of the "security" issues Cloudflare markets itself a
by uconnectlol 4y ago
I thought HN of all places would understand this: The Cloudflare captcha is not for DDoS. It's for the rest of the "security" issues Cloudflare markets itself as a solution to:
> The problem is Tor exit nodes often have very bad reputations due to all the malicious requests they send, and you can do a lot of harm just with GETs. Content scraping, ad click fraud, and vulnerability scanning are all threats our customers ask us to protect them from and all only take GET requests.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/