Tell HN: The web is still broken due to Cloudflare

I still can't curl or wget some website as of 2011 with an arbitrary IP address because Cloudflare controls the vast majority of the web and blocks any request that their bullshit firewall doesn't like. If you use Tor or VPN or any other IP that is "bad", all your traffic will be blocked by default to any website that sits behind Cloudflare (as of 2018 you can get around it by emulating a web browser instead of switching to a new untarnished IP[1]).

It's not even just that. If I type a certain word on a website I'll get some stupid Cloudflare security page. Even on fresh IPs on new computer hardware I still see the Cloudflare security page all the time. IT'S JUST BROKEN GARBAGE THAT NEVER WORKED, LIKE WINDOWS UAC.

Don't tell me some bullshit like "serves you right blah blah", or "security theater is good", or bring up the "oh no there are bots on the internet" meme.

This is a red herring. You can't have a protocol and say it can only be accessed by some specific implementation brought to you by IBM^WMicrosoft^WGoogle. You are literally just wrong, and your concern is that you were not able to serve ads to the user and hijack his browser in various ways or profile him. Just get a real job. Broadcast television did not require any of that. There was no way for anyone to know what TV channel you were watching, yet it still existed and was higher quality than the web. Your bullshit practice is not a right, it's a privilege.

Blocking IPs for any reason other than a temporary DDoS measure is simply an invalid practice and you do not know what you're talking about. I see this opinion so much but I'd like to imagine it's just the average lay people getting involved in subjects above their heads as opposed to the main characters but I know it's probably the latter.

1. Before that, you could not access anything at all from Tor Browser without filling out 2 captchas per website (yes two). Yes, that's SEVEN YEARS that they completely broke Tor for. Remember that Cloudflare is the #1 problem for Tor, not the NSA.

If you are okay with Cloudflare doing this shit just get out of my industry, like seriously, it's not even a moral issue, you're just wrong, it serves no purpose, but it's easy to convince laymen with bad arguments like "it stops sql injection", and is just annoying, how did you even pass FizzBuzz or whatever placebo hiring test they have these days. Don't give me any "wah software is toxic" bullshit, software industry is overly polite bunch of vastly overpaid people with sedentary minds and bodies who sit around all day who mostly don't know what they're doing. You are a bad person and deserve to feel bad.