[tor-talk] Accessing Cloudflare sites on TBB

[Griffin Boyce]

Virgil Griffith wrote:
> For unrelated reasons I'm meeting with Cloudflare.  Can someone 
> enlighten
> me on the current state of the captcha situation?  Presuming they are
> unwilling to completely drop the captcha, what would be a step in the 
> right
> direction?
> 
> The last I heard from Cloudflare is:
> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor-
> 
> What is a step they can take right now for improving Tor user 
> experience?
> -V

   A main issue is that the captcha simply loops instead of allowing 
access to the website.  This is intermittent, so not sure if this is 
because they are trying to fix the issue, or if the issue happens more 
often on sites that have a lot of traffic (and all the traffic can be 
assumed to come from different sources).  This is a pretty basic issue, 
which they know exists, and I hear endless complaints about.  If you hit 
the captcha-loop, you're likely not to be able to access the website at 
all.

   Another is increasing the size of the user-defined whitelists.  Right 
now, the list only allows 200 IPs, which is insufficient if a 
highly-technical user wants to manually whitelist Tor exits.  This 
actually kept me personally from being a user -- that $200+/month 
instead goes to Amazon and Azure because I don't want Tor users 
penalized when they come to my sites.

best,
Griffin

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