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Yeah I got a Cloudflare DDOS check then a 503. Non HTTPS seems to be working, http://usafacts.org/

Dear deity i hate those...

Cloudflare lately has become an immediate tab-closing prompt the way paywalls usually are

Definitely. Anytime this pops up I leave the site to never return. Why is CF doing this? Instead of preventing ddos you prevent actual users.