alt Hacker NewsAgree on point 1. Now even tiny websites that wouldn't be a target for anyone are hiding behind Cloudfare. If you are so worried about people sending requests to your website then take it offline, that will get you 100% success preventing bots
I'm so tired of having to do Captchas and waiting everywhere to access websites
As someone who hosts a few “tiny websites” that are “hiding behind Cloudflare”, it’s because of some incredibly misbehaved botnet traffic that’s otherwise persistently scraping via residential proxies.
This is a hobby for me. It’s for my enjoyment and it allows me to provide resources that others enjoy using. However, I’m not going to allow literally 99%+ of requests to be aggressive scrapers that won’t give up until you’ve got a heavy-handed solution in place.
I hate it too, but the alternative is even more consolidation, so unfortunately this is just the reality right now and you’ll have to get over it until when/if things improve.