[danr4]

I don’t know… the so called free web is also a bot paradise, and like it or not cloudflare is actually helping mitigate it to some degree. It comes with a cost but maybe it’s worth it?

[shrimpx]

Cloudflare has played a major part in making VPNs suck, by providing a service that actively blacklists VPN IPs and selling companies on integrating the VPN blocker into their services.

It's probably true that some VPNs are used for nefarious stuff, but it's also lame that Cloudflare is such an anti-privacy warrior.

[RobotToaster]

The web basically relies on bots to exist, search engines wouldn't work without them, Archive.org uses them to archive the web, etc.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of bots are actually nefarious.