Interesting, I have a lot less problems with the Cloudflare verification, than with Google captchas. The slightest unusual thing seems to put you in captcha hell

What browsers does it block?

Well that was fun!

Does it need to?

Stuff hosted by cloudflare is not the whole internet

I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you

Self host your desperation.

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You can try https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?

Honestly, I didn't even notice.

This is dumb...

If you self host and your power goes out ...

Think about it

Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them...

Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.

I prefer less uptime at saturday over a random rare outage.

Maybe this guy lives in an area immune to random outages ? Never any power shutdown, internet disconnection or slowness. And his hardware never fails too 🫢

......My UPS kicks in.

Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.

I've been looking everywhere for somebody to explain it. Like, there are dozens of articles outlining exactly what happened. Which I don't need because I was there. I know what happened. I just have been wondering why and finally you have provided a link that actually gives me a reason.

So, thank you kind stranger.

For me it's because it's free, easy to use, and supported by ddclient.