Comment by Silhouette

I've experienced similar problems in the past. Cloudflare decides that something about the ISP or software I'm using is not on some secret approved list and we all get a bag of coal for Christmas instead of the content we were asking for until we've jumped through whatever hoops it decided to set up this week. And I've heard way too many anecdotes from way too many people in real life to believe this is some sort of isolated or unusual event.

If Cloudflare is now taking a hit because it's become collateral damage to an over-generalised penalty system despite having done nothing wrong itself then it is difficult to find much sympathy. If this blocking exposes how much of the web we all use every day is now being routed via a single point of failure that has been operating largely as a law unto itself then that also seems like a positive step to me.