There are a lot of emotions in the comments here today. CloudFlare provides a clear response and it has merit. Archive.is surely is not 100 reliant on this single mechanism to load share or determine correct routing to cache locations, I agree with the poster - I can't see a reason why they would block this via Cloudflare when so many other mechanisms they should already be deploying to satisfy their requirements across multiple layers in the stack exist. Edit: The position makes or made no sense and smells fishy.