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Dealing with denial of service attacks in a way that doesn't involve needing to own more bandwidth then the attacker can saturate would be something to look into.

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Well, that would have to be either not having a link for them to try to saturate (ie, edge-distribute your stuff as CDNs do), or preventing them from sending packets to you (which means telling other people's routers to run your packet-filtering code, which I'd think might be a bit of a hard sell).

That sounds like a business opportunity for a service provider specializing in packet filtering.

So cloudflare?

Please prove you are human. Not what we really want from the internet, but thanks to these companies it's what we have to endure. As a consequence nothing is automation friendly, stupid netblocks are in place on many sites and an array of VPNs are an almost a requirement now just to obtain information.

Cloudflare is working on getting rid of CAPTCHAs almost entirely - https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/

That blog post was released on April 1, but it isn't a joke (Cloudflare announces things that seem crazy but are real on April 1 instead of doing a joke)

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but not on a team related to this.

The captchas are annoying, but its not the only thing cloudflare does. Cloudflare also has anti-ddos products that dont involve captchas. For example their Layer 3 magic transport

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