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.