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The majority of CloudFlare's IP addresses are blocked by China's great firewall, which means CloudFlare is out of the question if you expect that your website will be visited by Chinese users.

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1) That's not actually accurate; and 2) Just wait for the next trick we have up our sleeve (https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-more-thing-keyless-ssl-and-c...)

It may not be entirely accurate; I can only go by the complaints I hear from my Chinese friends, and my limited experience with CloudFlare-enabled websites when I'm in China for short stays. However it definitely has significant impact for Chinese users.

I see you have big plans for China :) Looking forward to seeing your new data centers coming online. How do you plan to solve the mandatory ICP Registration problem for your customers?

> my limited experience with CloudFlare-enabled websites

Sums it up nicely.

There are plenty of cloudflare IPs that are blocked. Is cloudflare aware of this? A few were being used for cdnjs which causes problems for anyone using cdnjs.

That can't be correct, I get lots of traffic from China, and use Cloudflare. Unfortunately, the traffic is often SQL injection type garbage, so I'm going to be upgrading to Cloudflare Pro as it seems they block such traffic.

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