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Interesting read. I've thought about this for a while.

My woes with the site is that my connection to any of the clearnet domains seem to get black holed, or completely blocked by Cloudflare while using Tor. The onion site works fine for viewing, but to archive pages I need to complete the extremely difficult Cloudflare CAPTCHA.

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The captcha page looks like cloudflare, but I don't think they're using cloudflare, haha. They use recaptcha (not sure if that's possible with cloudflare), the `server` header doesn't == 'cloudflare', accessing by direct ip gives "hello world" instead of the "Direct IP access not allowed" cloudflare message, /cdn-cgi/trace isn't accessible.

Not sure why they do that. Is it just because it looks decent, or is it poking fun, maybe because of their issue with 1.1.1.1?

>The captcha page looks like cloudflare, but I don't think they're using cloudflare, haha.

That's amazing, I never bothered to take a look once I saw that page but I did just now, and you're right. Google reCAPTCHA skinned as Cloudflare, hysteric.

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