Problems with Cloudflare Bot Blocking

Cloudflare is very fast to sell you automated “bot” blocking services. These are aimed at blocking malicious requests to your site. However these services have a major problem. In the interest of simplicity the services are far too blunt. I have seen a number of cases of this breaking websites for legitimate visitors.Blocking assets such as JS, CSS and images with CAPTCHA challenges. These resources obviously can not be solved as the browser will discard the result as it has the wrong content ty...

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