Allow your ISP to track you, else no internet for you [Cloudflare]

[WowSuchSpeed 0]

Cloudflare recently clamped down on connections through VPNs. Until now, we were getting annoying captchas and it was PITA but workable. Now, the requests are straight up blocked, or the captcha won't load at all. reCaptcha is giving VPN users unsolvable captchas for many years. Plenty of webhosting providers are blocking VPN IPs on their own accord (based on blacklists provided by Cloudflare I'd guess?).

The amount of websites "guarded" by cloudflare and reCaptcha is ridiculous. It is like... 80% of the internet? You can't even visit torrent sites without getting hit by captcha from one of these providers.

Please note I'm not talking specifically about AirVPN, this problem affects all VPN providers and also users than doesn't use VPN at all, because Cloudflare will block you even for using a browser they don't like.

"Allow your ISP, google, cloudflare, meta, your browser, and your OS to track your every move, else no internet for you"

Edited ... by WowSuchSpeed

[OpenSourcerer 1450]

Correlation != causation, as always. You're feeling the fallout of a small number of users scripting the hell out of VPN connections, launching all manner of automated attacks against all kinds of websites and services. As the saying goes, one bad apple spoils the barrel.
People are built this way: There's heightened temptation to do "unsavory" things when there is less risk of being discovered doing so. In the realm of the internet, all manner of proxied connections like VPNs are bound to be abused at some point. The website operators don't want their servers to be attacked, obviously, so countermeasures are deployed; and you can bet these countermeasures will take the path of least resistance for the operators: Just subscribe to a service which maintains reputation lists and route traffic through them to filter the bad kind, and you get to make attacks less likely and less impactful for you (hello, Sucuri). It's a cognitive bias to falsely attribute this to "privacy is bad". It correlates, but is extremely likely not the cause – since there is no cause to block normal users using a website normally while connected to such a VPN. Everything else is good old conspiracy talk without even a sliver of proof.

The human mind is annoyingly good in comparing and correlating things since it's continuously searching for explanations. It's the principle reason science exists – and pseudoscience, for that matter. You'd think the internet made us intelligent due to the sheer amount of info it holds, but, no, it's actually a good example of "to have too much of a good thing". Beware of too easy explanations, for everything you try to understand.