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CloudFlare does more than just caching. Even on non-cached pages it can filter and otherwise mitigate traffic that it has identified as malicious.



Correct, many times I've had to fill out a captcha to load a CloudFlare-protected page.


The sensitivity/frequency by which the captcha challenge page gets displayed is dependent on the security settings selected by the website owner.




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