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Use Cloudflare or any free CDN service?

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted, it's a legit answer, CDN hides your origin.



Cloudflare is just a disaster for bypassing government censorship. If some website is blocked in my country and I try to access it with Tor or VPN then I better hope it is not behind Cloudflare, because Cloudflare just gives me endless Google captcha instead of the desired website.


That assumes the website actually wants to block abusive traffic. A freedom site won’t.


It's captchas from cloudflare because their country is routinely used for malicious activity.


They do have a Captchas Effectively Off setting, but you are right that it still could trigger: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170096-H...




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