That seems pretty unreasonable.

"why are we cutting all the trees in the park?" really you want trees to fall on your kid and crushing them to death?? what's wrong with saving kids??

"why are we closing the water in the fountains in the town?" really you want your kids to drown into the fountains or drink contaminated water??

However, in the last few months, Cloudflare has become increasingly annoying. I suspect that they might have implemented some "AI" "threat" detection, which gives much more false positives than before.

For instance, this week I have frequently been blocked when trying to access the home page of some sites where I am a paid subscriber, with a completely cryptic message "The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.".

The only "action" that I have done was opening the home page of the site, where I would then normally login with my credentials.

Also, during the last few days I have been blocked from accessing ResearchGate. I may happen to hit a few times per day some page on the ResearchGate site, while searching for various research papers, which is the very purpose of that site. Therefore I cannot understand what stupid algorithm is used by Cloudflare, that it declares that such normal usage is a "threat".

The weird part is that this blocking happens only if I use Firefox (Linux version). With another browser, i.e. Vivaldi or Chrome, I am not blocked.

I have no idea whether Cloudflare specifically associates Firefox on Linux with "threats" or this happens because whatever flawed statistics Cloudflare has collected about my accesses have all recorded the use of Firefox.

In any case, Cloudflare is completely incapable of discriminating between normal usage of a site by a human (which may be a paying customer) and "threats" caused by bots or whatever "threatening" entities might exist according to Cloudflare.

I am really annoyed by the incompetent programmers who implement such dumb "threat detection solutions", which can create major inconveniences for countless people around the world, while the incompetents who are the cause of this are hiding behind their employer corporation and never suffer consequences proportional to the problems that they have caused to others.

is_using_vpn? -> bad,abuse,ddos

thanks' cloudflare for saving our internet by destroying it...

This exact same thing continues in 2025 with Windows Defender. The cheaper Windows Server VMs in the various cloud providers are practically unusable until you disable it.

You can tell this stuff is no longer about protecting users or property when there are no meaningful workarounds or exceptions offered anymore. You must use defender (or Cloudflare) unless you intend to be a naughty pirate user.

I think half of this stuff is simply an elaborate power trip. Human egos are fairly predictable machines in aggregate.