[throwaway323929]

HN won't let me update this comment for some reason, so I'll just add this here:

The real issue here is that the web is becoming increasingly centralized, which means that we're becoming more dependant on the internal processes of a small handful of venture capital corporations for the web to work. Regardless of Cloudflare's current policy on Tor (they seem to be trying which is good), they could also just arbitrarily change that policy anytime they want, and this is a scary situation for the future of the web. It's a single point of failure for a large chunk of the web, for political manipulation and for advertiser and government spying. Tor (your last chance at a privacy web) users being unable to access major swaths of the web just happens to be the first sign of the implications of this. It's no surprise to me at all that we've seen so much interest in distributed web technologies lately (IPFS, ZeroNet).

[jamespo]

They're not unable to access large swathes. It is inconvenient however. And site owners can disable the captchas.

Also moving away from Cloudflare is just a DNS update away.