[tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

[JT Allison]

Nick Sullivan from CloudFlare responded on twitter yesterday that they're
trying to make sites more accessible.

https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/511283723514290176

Also this https://twitter.com/xxdesmus/status/511283225818189825

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 On Sep 15, 2014 4:43 PM, "Öyvind Saether" <oyvinds at everdot.org> wrote:

> > These captchas recently started appearing (more often) on all kinds
> > of sites.   By far the most common name that pops up associated with
> > this security is "Cloudfare," but also some others.
> > Aside from being forced to allow scripts in NoScript from Cloudfare
> > for the captcha to work (or which ever one it is), it also seems to
> > require allowing scripts from... Google.com.
>
> I too have noticed the Cloudflare annoyance on a wide variety of sites
> lately (not sure if more sites use Cloudflare or if Cloudfare has begun
> asking for a captcha in more cases).
>
> The only solution would be to ask/get Cloudflare to stop doing this so
> we will probably just have to live with it. Perhaps someone from the
> Tor project could talk to them - but it could be that they have
> experienced a lot of abuse and have their reasons (still, you get this
> captcha when trying to get to the site, it's not something that only
> shows up if you do a HTTP POST or something like that).
>
> I just want to say this to webmasters and website owners: What actually
> happens is that I click a link, see the Cloudflare "captcha" message,
> interpret the message as "This site is broken when accessed through
> Tor, oh well" and CLOSE THE TAB or click "Back".
>
> I am not sure this is something most corporations would care about
> since Tor users tend to block their (javascript-using) advertisements
> anyway but webmasters, know that I am probably not the only one who
> will go somewhere else instead of enabling JavaScript from a bunch
> of places & typing in a silly captcha
>
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