Comment by sureglymop
9 months ago
I've had issues with their captchas just not working but not providing that as feedback. Javascript enabled and all.
You can easily reproduce this by using a mainstream browser like Chrome and changing your user agent to e.g. a Firefox one (or the reverse). You'll be hit with captchas everywhere but unlike the cloudflare ones the google ones can at least be resolved.
A Firefox user agent with a Chrome Javascript engine and a Chrome TLS engine is suspicious. Any decent bot prevention mechanism will trigger on that.
I don't have issues passing these blocks in Firefox, though.
from my travel experiences with my laptop
linux + firefox + less developed country ISP = endless captcha loop or straight up ban
I've had that experience in a developed country too, but every time it happened it was because of CGNAT without IPv6 (or some similar setup causing millions of requests to come from a single IP).
But on the other hand, almost all of the requests from less developed countries in my logs seem to be malicious. I've blocked entire countries at times (through iptables, arguably better for privacy but worse for blocked people) when a dumb bot wave made it through the internet. I get why Cloudflare is so eager to ban some ISPs, those ISPs seem to be doing a terrible job protecting the rest of the internet from their hacked or abusive customers.
If you travel is short enough, use Chrome. It works fine for me with Linux+Chrome+LessDevelopedCountryISP. That said, I do understand you are giving up some privacy by using Chrome, instead of Firefox. Can you just use a Chrome user agent, or does Cloudflare fingerprint your browser via JavaScript?