Replying to Avatar Terry Frazier

I would like to know what is actually, technically going on behind the scenes when #cloudflare throws a captcha just because I'm using a #VPN, claims it has detected "suspicious activity," and needs to "verify I am human."

I'm 90%+ sure neither of these stated justifications is honest and do not represent what's really happening.

It is much more likely, IMO, cloudflare is making some attempt at identifying me in order to sell marketing data - probably some pattern match of device profile to a known identity database. But I don't really know and would like to.

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Dan 1y ago

They likely just see too many people connecting from the same IP address (your VPN).

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Terry Frazier 1y ago

It is easy enough to identify legit IP addresses for known VPNs - just like it's easy to identify known IP addresses for major email list providers such as mailChimp or Amazon SES.

Your suggestion may well be another excuse they offer, but it's not a technically valid reason.

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