Well into the second day of Cloudflare’s blockade of my home internet connection, Google Search also began blocking requests. It required me to resolve a CAPTCHA challenge for every other search. This luckily only lasted a day.
Cloudflare shares IP reputation data with partners like Google, coordinated through a program called the Bandwidth Alliance. So, my original offense might not even have been against Cloudflare. It might have received the reputation data from a partner, and it just propagated through the Bandwidth Alliance network.
That's not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It's about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it's about sharing IP reputation data comes from.
Cloudflare shares IP reputation data with partners like Google, coordinated through a program called the Bandwidth Alliance. So, my original offense might not even have been against Cloudflare. It might have received the reputation data from a partner, and it just propagated through the Bandwidth Alliance network.
That's not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It's about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it's about sharing IP reputation data comes from.
https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
So, if Google Search started showing a CAPTCHA that's not Cloudflare.