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Ask HN: Has anyone else been having issues with Cloudflare captchas this week?
I seem to be getting blocked over 95% of the time on my laptop (10yr old 4-core gaming laptop), on all browsers, including Chrome and Firefox.
It seems that Cloudflare increased some kind of proof of work level in their captchas around the start of this week, since every time one shows up it drains all of my CPU for 20 seconds before giving up and looping, or occasionally, after 10 minutes of refreshing and redoing the captcha, letting me through.
It doesn't even have the decency to ask for an interactive challenge after clicking the checkbox, it just wastes CPU cycles... I'm sure the real bots love that.