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Do any of the more technically-inclined people here know anything about how to get past Cloudflare anti-bot verification?
I used to be able to get past — barely — if I made sure that absolutely nothing else (no other browser tabs, no background processes) was using any of my bandwidth. Then, starting a couple weeks back, even that didn't always work, and I'd sometimes get caught in the failing & retrying loop. When this happened, I'd need to stop and try again in a few hours.
As of a few days ago, that stopped working too, and I'm completely unable to get verified as not a bot. I've tried every bit of troubleshooting I could find online (on my end) — caches, different web browsers. The only thing that worked was switching over to my phone as an internet hotspot… until I hit my monthly data cap (after only a couple of hours) and got that throttled, which made it stop working too.
Is this truly an issue with my ISP or connection itself, as it appears, or is there still something I can do? From what I've read, the slow speed of my DSL connection should not by itself be an issue — that there's no "minimum speed" for passing the Cloudflare anti-bot verification. I'm in Alaska, so that may be an issue.
(I don't have much hope of contacting my ISP doing any good.)
Did you use the same browser when doing the hotspot method? If yes, it means your home IP address must be hard flagged in Cloudflare's system. The solution is to get request a new IP from your ISP. If that's not an option, you can try doing a hard reset of your modem but that doesn't guarantee a new IP address in most cases since IP allocation is handled on ISP's end. You can also try some VPNs and residential proxies as well
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You might have malware on your computer (or other computers/devices in your house) and that's what's getting your home IP on cloudflare's shitlist.
Try changing your IP. Ask Google what your IP address is (or at one of the top hits) and then reboot your cable modem, see if your IP changes and see if your cloudflare problems go away.
If it goes away for a bit and then gets worse again I think that means you're part of a botnet.
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My understanding of cloudflare is that they aggregate information about how your browse the internet from the sites that use their service to see if you browse in a humanlike way. Having any sort of adblocking, scriptblocking, cache deletion, history deletion, vpn, cookie blocking, etc might interfere with their ability to verify that you're a human. If they fail-safe and block access... There you go.
That being said, your description of trying different browsers makes me think the above probably isn't your problem. So maybe Cloudflare just thinks your ip is from a region with a lot of bot traffic? Especially if russian, chinese, korean addresses get into america through fiber lines and DNS hops in the bering straight... Maybe try a VPN instead? You can start with one of the free ones online just to test (though fyi those will 100% harvest your data) then get a real service if it works.
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