Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

"Our Turnstile widget and Challenge Pages are served 7.67 billion times every single day. That's not a typo. Billions. This might just be the most-seen user interface on the Internet."

Or it might not

The majority of the traffic on the internet is from so-called "bots"

If a "bot" hits this "interface" does that count as being "seen"

The web's failing, its inability (unwillingness) to accept non-interactive use (no good for advertising), is Cloudflare's success

A strange thing to celebrate. MITM'ing the majority of the web for "security". Could there be a better way

Another source of amusement is the "You've been blocked" Cloudflare page showing the user's IP address and suggesting contacting the site operator might solve the problem

The truth is that sending an acceptable user-agent header value solves the problem

"You" are not being blocked (Cloudflare does not who "you" are), your IP address is not being blocked, the _request_ you sent was blocked because of crude heuristics

If a site operator wants a certain header value (why) then it should publish the list of acceptable values

Send another request with an acceptable header value and the requests succeeds. It appears "you" are not blocked, same IP address, same living, breathing, thinking person sending the request