Nick Sullivan from CloudFlare responded on twitter yesterday that they're trying to make sites more accessible.
https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/511283723514290176 Also this https://twitter.com/xxdesmus/status/511283225818189825 --- GPG/PGP Fingerprint E129 722B A512 105C E8BE 4705 8046 EA48 2C82 1339 https://arlen.io/key On Sep 15, 2014 4:43 PM, "Öyvind Saether" <oyvi...@everdot.org> wrote: > > These captchas recently started appearing (more often) on all kinds > > of sites. By far the most common name that pops up associated with > > this security is "Cloudfare," but also some others. > > Aside from being forced to allow scripts in NoScript from Cloudfare > > for the captcha to work (or which ever one it is), it also seems to > > require allowing scripts from... Google.com. > > I too have noticed the Cloudflare annoyance on a wide variety of sites > lately (not sure if more sites use Cloudflare or if Cloudfare has begun > asking for a captcha in more cases). > > The only solution would be to ask/get Cloudflare to stop doing this so > we will probably just have to live with it. Perhaps someone from the > Tor project could talk to them - but it could be that they have > experienced a lot of abuse and have their reasons (still, you get this > captcha when trying to get to the site, it's not something that only > shows up if you do a HTTP POST or something like that). > > I just want to say this to webmasters and website owners: What actually > happens is that I click a link, see the Cloudflare "captcha" message, > interpret the message as "This site is broken when accessed through > Tor, oh well" and CLOSE THE TAB or click "Back". > > I am not sure this is something most corporations would care about > since Tor users tend to block their (javascript-using) advertisements > anyway but webmasters, know that I am probably not the only one who > will go somewhere else instead of enabling JavaScript from a bunch > of places & typing in a silly captcha > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
