30% is plain ridiculous. Cloudflare is believed to counts as bots even the real users who fail their verification, including: - people with older browsers who

30% is plain ridiculous. Cloudflare is believed to counts as bots even the real users who fail their verification, including: - people with older browsers who fail it automatically due to unsupported features - whoever gets stuck in captcha loops and gives up eventually - whoever has a slow internet connection and gives up during the verification process This happens to be a lot of people, especially the less technical ones with less access to good technology, which is why we rarely hear complaints on HN. This way, the Cloudflare people can tell you some completely made up numbers, like "This month we blocked one gazillion malicious bots and saved you 30 yottabytes of data", which makes it look like they're doing something of value instead of making the internet a more closed, restricted, corporate and centralized place.