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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's especially moronic that Cloudflare thinks everyone using Tor is trying to DDOS every site.

Do you know how fucking slow Tor is? You couldn't DDOS an Arduino with it.

[–] QwertySpace 25 points 1 year ago

Probably because there are A LOT of people using that tor exit node that have visited that site recently. So, cloudflare sees it as a potential DDOS

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Onion sites get DDOS attacks constantly. That's why Dread has so many backup links.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

afaik, cloudflare has an option to disallow tor traffic. so the website owner decided they don't want tor

[–] DacoTaco 5 points 1 year ago

Not only tor. Any user agent string that has no valid info is marked as not trusted/bot/gtfo