Topic: Turn off this cloudflare or you’re losing a reader.

This site, pure Xbox and Time Extension. All visited multiple times a day by me.

I don’t use ad blockers because I want to support you guys.

But I swear to God if you continue with this cloudflare crap I will stop visiting,

EVERY SINGLE PAGE. Not just visit - PAGE. Verify your damned identity.

Whether I’m using a VPN or not.

Sometimes as per previous post I’m blocked completely.

I understand you have to protect yourself but this is a joke. And as a customer of yours who is the kind of profile I think you wanna keep - disposable, income and ads served - if you don’t DO it in a different way you will lose me.

I’m sure you don’t care about one person but I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Sorry to rant but it’s a joke!

It must be wonky on your end, since it rarely does it for me.

@norwichred hey there, no need to rant, let’s keep it civil

So you’re talking about the anti-bot mode on cloudflare, this is to protect the site from malicious bots and nothing to do with Adblock.

The challenge will appear based on a whole number of factors and should retain the result for at least 24 hours.

If you’re seeing it more frequently then perhaps your using a VPN or similar that is changing your IP on a frequent basis (which often indicates a bot) so probably seeing the challenge more likely.

If you’re using a VPN, I would suggest using one the doesn’t rotate so frequently and also use a country like US/UK as they are also less likely to get the challenge.

Unfortunately we have to protect ourselves from bots that harvest our content and consume lots of resources which ends up costing us quite a lot in hosting fees. We’ve seen a surge in bots recently hence putting protection in place.

Should things die down again we can look at relaxing those rules.

I made clear that it happens whether using VPN or not.

The ad blocker thing was to emphasise I support the site and would never use it. The amount of advertising revenue you get from me across the network must at least be slightly above average.

But at the same time whether “something is wonky my end” or not whether “I’m using a VPN” or not I am a customer and a technology you are choosing to use (one that I’ve seen go wrong and take websites offline before) is making visiting your sites a sub optimal experience bordering on unpleasant.

If it continues that’s your choice of course and I’ll choose not to stay around if this experience continues.

This is your business and it’s just my downtime. There are alternative sites. Inferior in content but superior in user experience since this implementation.