steven36 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Company launches new Cloudflare Onion Service. Only Tor Browser 8 and Tor Browser for Android users will see less or no CAPTCHAs. Cloudflare launched today a new service named the "Cloudflare Onion Service" that can distinguish between bots and legitimate Tor traffic. The main advantage of this new service is that Tor users will see far less, or even no CAPTCHAs when accessing a Cloudflare-protected website via the Tor Browser. The new Cloudflare Onion Service needed the Tor team to make "a small tweak in the Tor binary," hence it will only work with recent versions of the Tro Browser --the Tor Browser 8.0 and the new Tor Browser for Android, both launched earlier this month. Tor users who are dead tired of seeing an endless stream of Google reCAPTCHAs when accessing a Cloudflare-protected site are advised to update to one of these two versions. The new Cloudflare Onion Service is also free for all Cloudflare customers and can be enabled by switching on the "Opportunistic Encryption" option under the Crypto tab of the Cloudflare dashboard. Tor users have been complaining about seeing too many CAPTCHAs when accessing a Cloudflare-protect site for years now. In February 2016, Tor Project administrators went as far as to accuse Cloudflare of "sabotaging Tor traffic" by forcing Tor users to solve CAPTCHA fields ten times or more, in some cases. Cloudflare responded to accusations a month later, claiming the company was only showing CAPTCHAs because 94 percent of all Tor traffic was either automated bots or originating from malicious actors. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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