Comment by inventor7777
5 hours ago
Not in this case. I wish I could find the actual post, but I recall reading a post on HN recently where a majority of the commenters were claiming that when they even see a Cloudflare verification checkbox that they leave the website.
This makes no sense to me as in my experience, you click the checkbox and then it verifies you without extra steps.
It does if you're a normie.
HN users love to inflict some pain on themselves and use non-standard OSes, browsers, browser settings, network / blocking configs etc. They then blame the results on Cloudflare instead of themselves.
Usually but not always. The challenge is after clicking the checkbox, if it can't manage to verify automatically. So those users have learned not to bother.
On my favorite browser (Opera Mobile with desktop mode) Cloudflare verification never works. It just says "failed, please try again" forever.