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by judge2020 2137 days ago
CF seems to have started classifying browsers with no existing CF cookies as likely bots (a score of 10 or less, where 99 is a human and 1 is confirmed bot) for enterprise users of their Bot Management feature[0]. From my testing, it happens for both puppeteer and incognito tabs of Chrome, even with perfect IP reputation.

0: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002751945...

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That would explain why I always see CF bot prompts when visiting a site for the first time or the hundredth time in Safari with a few layers of tracking protection and no third-party cookies. I prefer to answer captchas if that’s the price I pay for a bit more privacy, then...
CF and Google Captcha is really making the web unbrowsable with hardened browsers. The web is looking really grim for people who care about privacy these days.