Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.
> The issue you are experiencing is related to the security settings that the administrator of the website you are visiting has set.
Maybe I should have been more persistent for Cloudflare's sake, but when you're frustrated it's not really easy to be politely persistent. So, now I'm just voting with my clients' wallets.
When the checkbox is clicked, a visual puzzle appears; right below, there's a button that can be clicked to switch to the audio captcha. Here's a demo: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
Not only does it trigger a captcha but a site that does so, if you're browsing a while, usually triggers another in 20-30 minutes. They don;t cookie the browser in any way, so if I happen to be browsing HN and go to 4 or 5 different Cloudflare links I get 4 or 5 captchas. Each with 20-30 minute refresh timeouts ticking.
Mostly these days, unless it's a rare site that's worth the hassle, I close the tab rather than faff ticking boxes identifying road signs.
So from this data point of one, Cloudflare costs sites traffic.
I have noticed the issue with IP addresses in Indian train ticket booking site also. Tatkal train tickets [1] open at a specific time of a day, and there is a huge rush to book tickets at that time. and the site allows only 2 tickets for an IP. Sometimes when I try to book Tatkal tickets, I would be denied because of some else already having booked from my ip. so I wondered whether my ISP has been lending some of it IPs for some automated train ticket booking brokers.