has been down most of the day now. For Tor users who refuse to connect to sites that means ~34% of the web is unreachable.

@resist1984 It is back now. Can you share with me the best dirt on how Cloudflare is able to identify people on TOR if that is what they can do? I understand technically how they serve their customers by blocking TOR connections.

@krock Cloudflare can't generally ID Tor users (this is why they treat all Tor users with equal hostility). Exceptionally, if you supply data to a CF site either by logging into hCAPTCHA or logging into the target website, then CF can of course distinguish you from others; as well as by browser printing and the like.

@resist1984 Thank you for explaining. I realize they provide identity management services to their clients like many other companies do based on various fingerprinting techniques. This is why I use different browsers for different profiles.

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@krock Tor Browser has anti-fingerprinting features that no other browsers do (AFAIK), but some browser plugins ruin that. There are also shortcomings with TB, so i do as you are, and use a dozen or so profiles with different browsers and never use it in fullscreen. When anonymity is important, TB without plugins is still king.

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