That seems pretty unreasonable.
Only this week I have witnessed several dozen cases when Cloudflare has blocked normal Web page accesses without any possible correct reason, and this besides the normal annoyance of slowing every single access to any page on their "protected" sites with a bot check popup window.
It is true that this has never happened before, but this week Cloudflare has frequently blocked my access to a site where I am a paid subscriber, and where there is no doubt that my access pattern matches exactly what that site must have been designed for, i.e. the site hosts a database and I make a few queries on it each day, less than a dozen, spread over the entire day, where each query takes a couple of seconds at most.
Whoever has implemented a "threat" detection algorithm that decides that such a usage is a "threat" and not normal usage, must be completely incompetent.
Also after starting the crawl, you can read about Aaron Swartz while waiting.
I think this is an overly harsh take. I run a fairly niche website which collates some info which isn't available anywhere else on the internet. As it happens I don't mind companies scraping the content, but I could totally undrestand if someone didn't want a company profiting from their work in that way. No one is under an obligation to provide a free service to AI companies.
The kind of laws and enforcement that would block that entire country from the internet if it doesn't get its criminal act together.
