Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Tor Traffic

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19 points·fabrice_d··6 comments

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At my last company, we blocked Tor wholesale. In my experience, Tor users are 1% privacy nazis and 99% nefarious actors. I have zero qualms about blocking tor. They wont see ads, they wont buy anything and chances are they are there to do something you dont want.

This seems like the responsible way for CloudFlare to deal with the situation, honestly.

An often broken captcha and tracking cookies is a responsible way for them to deal with it? I suppose I shouldn't ask what the irresponsible manner to deal with it would be.

I have used Tor occasionally on a lark and ran into these CAPCHAs. There is a version which is impossible to read or answer.

Ocassionally I get the "If you're a human, click this box" version which is an absolute godsend. Without that Cloudfare was a brick wall that prevented me to go any further.

Given that CloudFlare coughs up multiple CAPTCHAs, it actually makes it seem like their software is broken. When I get more than one, I have no idea if I mistyped or not, if CloudFlare's stuck in a loop, or if this is expected behavior.

Anything more than one (maybe two) CAPTCHAs seems punitive, and not technically-driven. What if CloudFlare next decides to interfere with the web experience of people using VPNs? Or ad blockers?

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