[jlokier]

You can conduct fraud by accessing public, read-only web pages? You can conduct fraud by searching on Google?

Those are the two I find repeatedly blocked when accessing via Tor. The former by Cloudflare, the latter by Google.

I use Tor to lookup phone numbers that have just called me, to decide whether it's a good idea to answer. Since I don't want to be personally associated with such numbers I prefer to search anonymously. But often it's impossible to get a result.

Sometimes even spending 5 minutes solving captchas isn't enough. (I'd only spend that long to see if it's just an outlier. No, it's quite common.)

This creates an immense pressure to tell various services exactly who is phoning me, which is a terrible attitude to privacy.

[ehutch79]

Then don't use sites that are behind cloudflare?

It's not your choice if the site owners/admins use cloudflare. It IS your choice not to use those sites.

[jlokier]

In practice the information I'm looking for is behind Cloudfare. There are other sites; they tend to lack the information.

There is no "don't use" if I want to get my task done.

I can choose not to obtain the information, but then I still have the problem I started with.

[sroussey]

For the companies I worked for, we usually allowed Tor as read only. But net ops might override that, particularly when things moved to https traffic.