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

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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[BitZtream]

So in the end ... you can easily track Tor users ...

Oh, and this doesn't do jack shit to stop bots ... a user can authenticate one bot manually by viewing the captcha ... then letting it run for hours, so theres a startup cost, but after that ... its back to bot town.

And how do you get users to do captchas for you? Something like the URL in my sig, which uses a 'game' to get users to do actual work no wants to pay for.

Tor.

[ledow]

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.