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Yes, e.g: I'll immediately close any attempt at Cloudfare's verification.

Out of interest, why that extreme? Just out of principle or some other reason?

Not OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway

My main terminal uses a PiHole with 120,000+ blacklist rules (not Cloudfare specifically — I allow most CDN's). This includes an entire blackout of Google/Facebook products, as well as most tracking/analytics services.

For example, I do not allow reCAPTCHA.

As a similar commentor noted, when just casually browsing I don't really have any desire to try hard to read random content. Should I absolutely need to access some information garden-walled behind Cloudfare: I have another computer that uses much less restrictive black-listing.

Can confirm. I have been blocked plenty of times and it's really annoying.

All the solutions are going to have a few false positives, sadly.

Or a lot if you use privacy extensions.

Cloudflare's automatic checks (before you get the captcha) must be pretty close to what ad peddlers do.