• HiddenLayer5
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months 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

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      7 months ago

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

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