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by pid1wow 868 days ago
What do you mean? On Tor I get a Cloudflare block just from clicking 2 links on the front page of HN:

http://forums.accessroot.com/index.php?showtopic=4361&st=0

>Please wait while your request is being verified...

I can't remember any day I didn't get a Cloudflare block. Even on bare IP sometimes. WAFs are security theater.

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Site admins can enable onion routing: https://developers.cloudflare.com/network/onion-routing/

Which circumvents the bad reputation of certain exit nodes:

> Due to the behavior of some individuals using the Tor network (spammers, distributors of malware, attackers), the IP addresses of Tor exit nodes may earn a bad reputation, elevating their Cloudflare threat score.