Cloudflare will just tell them that 70% traffic drop is because 70% of their traffic was bots, and everything is working fine, and hey, don't you want to upgrade to a paid plan to block 50% of the remainder? Think about how many bots will be blocked with that upgrade!
reply>I wonder if the website owners realise at all how many actual users they lose by this sort of "protection."
replyHow many people do you think are browsing with a weird enough config (eg. custom browser like OP, or some weird config like firefox with fingerprinting protection on a raspeberry pi) to trip cloudflare's protection?
Well… I know plenty people in my circle affected by this. Just have a slightly outdated system you simply can't afford to update: it's way to easy to get cut off like this. IMHO, a rather systematic discrimination of poorer people.
replyI'm one of those who have enabled cloudflare on all of the sites I maintain. Additionally, Added turnstile on every form.
replyI know some actual users get blocked. But the amount of spam we get without it, the amount of bot traffic simply overwhelming the server... It is just too much.
Recently I also hard blocked all IPs from china Singapore India Pakistan Russia and whole of africa. Do I want to do it? No. But the amount of bot traffic and corresponding spam is a bigger problem :(