Cloudflare blocking my IP (2023)
The Cloudflare Community discusses a user facing "verify you are human" prompts on Cloudflare-protected sites. Cloudflare advises contacting site owners for resolution, clarifying they don't block IPs. User frustration ensues.
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The Cloudflare Community forum discusses a user experiencing issues accessing websites protected by Cloudflare, facing constant "verify you are human" prompts. Cloudflare suggests contacting the site operators for resolution, as they control what is blocked. The user tried different browsers and devices, confirming the issue persists across all sites using Cloudflare. Changing the IP address temporarily resolved the problem, indicating potential reputation issues with the original IP. Cloudflare clarifies they do not directly block IPs and recommend contacting the site owners for assistance. The user expresses frustration as the problem affects multiple services, seeking Cloudflare's help to whitelist the IP, but Cloudflare reiterates that only site operators can address the issue. Suggestions include contacting the ISP for a new IP or waiting for the situation to resolve itself over time. Ultimately, Cloudflare emphasizes that site owners control access settings and are responsible for managing IP reputations.
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12 comments“Just go ahead and call the site owners of the 750,000 websites you’re currently blocked from accessing.”
And such uncaring dismissal. How completely helpless this must make the user feel.
(1) https://openrss.org/issue/144
(2) https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots - GoogleBot, GPTBot, and AmazonBot are some of the first ones listed.
Here's another one where the person reached out to their ISP to get a different NAT address as a spammer was messing up their IP rep. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37056810
This is some amazingly blatant corporate gaslighting.
Like, I get it, a very vocal minority of HN is very much against Cloudflare for perfectly valid reasons, including this risk.
But the value Cloudflare provides to these sites far outweights the problems. Otherwise they'd dump them.
This guy should do as said and just ask their ISP for another address to NAT from.
I'll get severely downvoted for this tho.
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