[neop1x]

Not long ago, CF has been blocking access from Tor. And they are blocking access from my web crawler sometimes. I don't like CF as they act as a police or gatekeeper to the origin website, deciding who to penalize and who do not, while pretending to be speeding up websites and protecting from 'threads'.

[lwansbrough]

They’re acting more as a security guard. Which is to say that they’re intentionally employed by the owner of the property you’re trying to enter. Often specifically to “bounce” users like you, malicious or not. Believe it or not there are legitimate reasons for wanting only real human users on your website!

[viraptor]

> while pretending to be speeding up websites and protecting from 'threads'.

They do though. That's why people pay them lots of money to do those two things. Not sure what part you think is "pretending"?

[gogopuppygogo]

One of the first 100 people to use cloudflare when it launched.

Paying them today to speed up a couple of websites while protecting them.

They rock at making big things possible for very small companies.

[trevorsstar]

Hey, me too! Do you have the first-users t-shirt?