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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.)
Cloudflare should ask you to solve a captcha once and gives you a cookie when you win that should work for a while. I never have issues even when behind VPNs that are definitely being used to do mass web scraping. It may just be your network speed if you don't have some kind of anti-cookie setting.
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