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casenmgreen

I couldn't view the blog post.

The "Just a moment" security check does not complete - sits there, with the busy icon, "Verifying".

Using Tor Browser, which will be why.

This is normal behaviour for Cloudflare sites.

Making a new circuit sooner or later gets past the check, usually after between two and five retries.

Curiously, I can never view Shopify sites. They always and fully block Tor.

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That sucks, but it's also just a business decision. If 97%(I made that up, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was that high) of purchases through Tor are fraudulent, then it makes a lot of sense to just not allow it. Take your money elsewhere.

There was a report posted on HN months ago showing the proportion of fraudulent vs legitimate activities on Tor vs non-Tor across a pool of websites. Tor users were (slightly, IIRC) more likely to be malicious, but they represented a drop in the bucket against all malicious users. Maybe some sites that do block Tor might be seeing different proportions, I'd wager most of them do it because Tor == bad for most people.

I'll add the source when I find it.

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