Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
by judge2020 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:31PM
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Cloudflare's "bot management" is effectively their own solution but doesn't provide a way to affirm you're not a bot like other solutions do; think of it like a fraud detection service and not a captcha service.
I also find it unlikely that they move away from Google's recaptcha since they seem to have an unlimited, unrestricted (can be used for any domain) recaptcha API key that they heavily rely on for the "captcha" challenge website owners like to use.
Cloudflare isn't really any better than Google.
Really, they're worse. If Cloudflare decides you should not be, you're not allowed to use the internet at all. The last thing we need is to give them even more power.
Cloudflare, being the Internet security company that it is, I believe, should roll out its own captcha or equivalent solution, even if only for the traffic it fronts. They kind of have got all the tools in the bag to make a splash with such an offering.