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by data_maan 1365 days ago
No, Cloudfare often just blocks you.

And if it doesn't, do you think that is a better solution, solving a captcha every 5 minutes? Just try using Google from behind a serious VPN provider, see how that works for you.

Also, what is your opinion on geoblock, do you think that is a good thing?

It seems you are one of the company's representatives that has never in his life consistently used a VPN or Tor, so you don't even know to what kind of restricted internet your company's products are leading to.
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byyll 1362 days ago
Although I am not a fan of cloudflare, cloudflare doesn't just block you. It's up to the administrator to choose what action he applies to what type of user.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/firewall/cf-firewall-rules...

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jonathan-kosgei 1365 days ago
To clarify, showing captchas is what a number of our customers do and I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

Geoblocks are unfortunately often necessary to comply with the law or contractual obligations eg. media streaming.

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data_maan 1364 days ago
> I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

While I would like to believe you the problems is that until there is a law on how much you can pester people with captchas (and you basically can pester them into oblivion) , privacy-conscious people are simply at the mercy of the sysadmin deciding for them how usable the company service is made. Which is a decidedly bad state of affairs, since he could simply wake up at any day, whip up Google-style captcha-ing and as a VPN user you simply would have no option for recourse :(

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