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That matches up with what they claim on their site:

CloudFlare does not actively block visitors who use the Tor network.

Due to the behavior of some individuals using the Tor network (spammers, distributors of malware, attackers, etc.), the IP addresses of Tor exit nodes generally earn a bad reputation. Our basic protection level issues captcha-based challenges to visitors whose IP address has a high threat score.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...



From personal experience: most activity you're likely to see from Tor exit nodes is fraudulent. Absolute bottom-of-the-barrel cesspool traffic trying to probe for vulnerabilities, commit fraud, scrape content, avoid IP blocks, and generally abuse your site in ways that the attacker wouldn't be comfortable doing with their own IP address. It's really tragic - given the potential of the network as a privacy tool - that it's mostly used for evil, not good.


Good people don't care about hiding their IP that much.


"I have nothing to hide" is just plain wrong. The less Google and others know about me, the better.


> CloudFlare does not actively block visitors who use the Tor network... ...Yet all visitors who use the Tor network are blocked. There's a certain contradiction here. (Yes, I know what they mean, but the end result remains the same.)

I've often had problems when using a VPN too.




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