Comment by snorlaxle

Social media like factories are usually targeting websites that are not hosted by Cloudflare (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube etc.)

If the like factories are using 3rd world IP's they are probably real human ( https://www.rt.com/viral/388169-smartphones-factory-generate... ) because bots can be run cheaper on a 1st world server because bandwidth, IP, and power usually cost less there. Captcha is an anti-bot measure and is not (or at least shouldn't be but I'm finding it hard to pass CF's captcha as human) very effective against actual humans.

I don't even think CF considers(or even aware of) the existence of a like factory on the same network for displaying the captcha and I am pretty sure they don't justify their captcha blocking with it. It's more likely that they just see a bunch of connections coming from the same IP and naively concludes that it must be a bot.

I'm sure it's easy to make "excuses"(vs justification) but given the real harm it does to actual human users and questionable effectiveness against the doubtful ill-effects of the existence of like factories against CF-hosted websites; I'd like to hear that "justification."