You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
<i>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.</i><p><i>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.</i><p>That&#x27;s not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It&#x27;s about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it&#x27;s about sharing IP reputation data comes from.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;bandwidth-alliance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;bandwidth-alliance&#x2F;</a><p>So, if Google Search started showing a CAPTCHA that&#x27;s not Cloudflare.