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I wish they also included the report link on the failed attempts, so I can let them know when Turnstile stops me from seeing websites on my mobile about every other week. I know other people are annoyed by captchas for good reasons, but this system also sucks unfortunately.

Just a rant / modern web sucks / CloudFlare effective monopoly sucks. There are other providers - please give them a go to diversify the web a bit.

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Yup. I run into this a lot with Firefox and it's super frustrating when some website's homepage just gives you a cloudflare error and a message that says "bummer bro, you're not allowed to see this. Here's a Ray ID that won't actually help you fix the issue"

I've let airlines and other companies know that Cloudflare isn't letting me buy their products but unsurprisingly they don't care (or tell me to clear my cookies)

I'd be interested in other DDoS mitigation providers for any site in the sub-$100/month price category. The only other ones I know are Amazon and Microsoft, and those tie you to their clouds.

https://www.x4b.net/protection/prices is on the cheap side, but I've not used them yet. Amazon you can use without hosting in their cloud by proxying all the CloudFront traffic to your external host. It may not be the best option long term, but with low traffic it should work fine.

Ovh and Hetzner provide their own solutions. Opinions are mixed there, but they both have big pipes at their disposal.

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