Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Tor Traffic

Found on Softpedia on Friday, 26 February 2016
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Tor Project maintainers are saying that CloudFlare's anti-DDOS technology often malfunctions and forces users to fill in CAPTCHAs multiple times over before reaching their desired website. This issue is also confirmed by your reporter who often times had to fill in CloudFlare CAPTCHAs for more than ten times before finally being redirected to a desired website.

Currently, Tor Project maintainers are thinking of adding a message that would read "Warning this site is under surveillance by Cloudflare," whenever Tor users would be accessing a CloudFlare-protected website.

As if Tor users are more of a problem than every other user. For most, the decision to block them is just based on negative journalism, bringing Tor in connection with illegal activities.