Comment by harry8
3 years ago
Let's all note just how much market share cloudflare got before throwing this switch. While they took over a huge part of the web this sort of thing never happened. Now it seems very much harder to even attempt to browse with slightly more anonymity.
Ladies and gentlemen start your conspiracy theories.
Right observation, but wrong conclusion.
Cloudflare skews towards a monopolistic monoculture. (Fastly and Akamai also exist, but present more friction.)
The issue is that with one transparent proxy and application firewall for a large fraction of web traffic, it has to cover uncountable edge-cases to not leave out nonzero users from a large number of sites. It's unlikely to be malicious intention here, but more likely accidents, oversights, and lack of alternatives.
This in fact happened all along and we warned you and got downvoted for it until now.