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Sorry - I signed up with cloudflare which promised a faster safer experience for my readers. =( I'll talk to them.



Just following up on this - here's how Cloudflare replied. I'm going to set my security levels to low.

Information about how the challenge pages appear can be found here: http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/DataSources The party could look up their IP to see why the challenge is happening here: http://projecthoneypot.org/search_ip.php

One thing that you can do is set your security settings to low on CloudFlare so only the worst offenders get challenged (attackers, etc.). You can do this by going to settings->CloudFlare settings->Security Level->Change to low.

There will be false positives with data, of course, but there are two options available to challenged visitors: 1. Pass the captcha to gain entry to your site. 2. The site admin can whitelist the ip address of the visitor in their CloudFlare Threat Control Panel, which will (a) override CloudFlare's behavior, and (b) help correct false positives.


Well, whatever you did worked. Thank you, I enjoyed the article.


Please take the cloudflare off.

I clicked. Got the landing page. Figured you had been hacked. Did not bother going through the captcha. Closed the browser tab.

I am sure I am not unique in this regard. There is far too much content on the web, and not enough time. If the content is not there when I need it, I go somewhere else.

You have basically put up a version of the "free signup to read the rest of the article" ... you see on so many big sites. I cannot even remember when I last completed such a free signup.

The short version, you will lose readers, and just so cloudflare can try and flog me some Windows anti-virus software when I am clearly running linux! Take it off.




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