CloudFlare Working On New System That Removes CAPTCHAs For Tor Users (softpedia.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 4, 2016 @02:40AM from the fixing-things dept.

Tor users have long criticized CloudFlare for annoying CAPTCHAs, but it appears the CDN provider is finally working on a fix. An anonymous reader writes: CloudFlare is working on a new system called "Challenge Bypass Specification," which it wants to deploy as a Tor Browser extension and replace the CAPTCHAs Tor users see when trying to access a website protected by CloudFlare. This new system will have users solve one CAPTCHA at the beginning and after that, the browser extension will use nonces (one-time authentication tokens) to prove the user's real identity before accessing a CloudFlare-protected site.

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Tor. by ledow · 2016-10-04 02:49 · Score: 3, Insightful

If nothing else, this is just another confirmation that the modern web isn't set up to allow you to be anonymous.
That's a problem we techy types should be fixing, not encouraging solutions that identify the user even more.