Virgil Griffith wrote:
For unrelated reasons I'm meeting with Cloudflare. Can someone
enlighten
me on the current state of the captcha situation? Presuming they are
unwilling to completely drop the captcha, what would be a step in the
right
direction?
The last I heard from Cloudflare is:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor-
What is a step they can take right now for improving Tor user
experience?
-V
A main issue is that the captcha simply loops instead of allowing
access to the website. This is intermittent, so not sure if this is
because they are trying to fix the issue, or if the issue happens more
often on sites that have a lot of traffic (and all the traffic can be
assumed to come from different sources). This is a pretty basic issue,
which they know exists, and I hear endless complaints about. If you hit
the captcha-loop, you're likely not to be able to access the website at
all.
Another is increasing the size of the user-defined whitelists. Right
now, the list only allows 200 IPs, which is insufficient if a
highly-technical user wants to manually whitelist Tor exits. This
actually kept me personally from being a user -- that $200+/month
instead goes to Amazon and Azure because I don't want Tor users
penalized when they come to my sites.
best,
Griffin
--
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
― Salvador Dalí
--
tor-talk mailing list - [email protected]
To unsubscribe or change other settings go to
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
