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@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ CloudFlare is a vigilante extremist organization that takes the decentralized we
1. CloudFlare is a burden on the **environment**
1. Images account for the [most significant][32] burden on Internet bandwidth and power consumption as a result. Naturally the most ecological web users are those who do not download images (robots, users of text browsers, and users who disable image retrieval). Because robots tend not to download images, anti-robot algorithms target all image-free sessions as robotic. CloudFlare consequently attacks the most ecological users on the web. Cloudflare automatically deems all robots other than search engine crawlers to be "malicious", and they admit this in the same [blog article][greenwash] where they claim to be reducing their environmental footprint. (The best pro-environment action you can take regarding Cloudflare is to simply not visit Cloudflare websites.)
1. Cloudflare [tarpits][tarpit] beneficial bots that it incorrectly brands as "malicious". Cloudflare's tar-pitting technique entails requiring bots to "solve a computationally intensive challenge that will require more of their bot’s CPU". This obviously means Cloudflare purposefully creates needless busy work that amounts to pure energy waste.
1. To counter Cloudflares attack on mislabeled beneficial bots, developers are compelled to make their bots act more human. This means downloading images needlessly, thus increasing the environmental footprint needlessly.
1. To counter Cloudflare’s attack on mislabeled beneficial bots, developers are compelled to make their bots act more human. This means downloading images needlessly, thus increasing the environmental footprint needlessly.
1. CF forces transmission of copious bandwidth-wasting images in order to supply CAPTCHAs. When a grid of images is presented for Cloudflare's hCAPTCHA, every grid cell is a separate image that requires a separate individual HTTP request, which culminates into the most costly of CAPTCHAs.
1. hCAPTCHA uses 4 levels of nested Javascript. So users with Javascript disabled are often forced to reload the CAPTCHA page 4 times just to see the puzzle.
1. Even with all Javascript loaded and executed to the extent needed to support the CAPTCHA, the CAPTCHA server itself often refuses to serve a puzzle due to a blown traffic threshold for an IP address. When the CAPTCHA fails to render or when a human user fails to solve the CAPTCHA, all the energy spent reaching the point of denial is to a total loss. Whether the user continues to reattempt or they give up, the energy waste is a loss for all parties and a detriment to the environment ultimately for no benefit.