Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

Ok, I’ll admit, I’m not the largest fan of centralisation, but rarely do I so swiftly and effectively feel the crushing weight of it.

I happen to use a very nice Chromium-based web-browser which, when it opens has javascript disabled. Often I find that nothing works so I re-enable javascript and continue about my day.

This morning I went to work, as normal, turned on my laptop and as my laptop dutifully reloaded all my tabs from the day before I saw a few sites error-ing out.

This is relatively common when I haven’t connected to the network yet, or some sites which don’t even attempt to load without javascript, so I check my connection, enable javascript and went about reloading the offending pages.

But I noticed quite a few of the pages were the following:

Let me copy that for those who don’t like to read images:

Ok, so I’ve been outright blocked, no captcha, and a suggestion to email the owners of the sites… which could be difficult given that I can’t actually reach the sites to find the site-owner for each one.

I figured this might be because I had javascript disabled and tried to load a few pages, so I refreshed the page, noted that no captcha appeared and continued my day and figured the ban would eventually be lifted; Noting that I should keep my browser open so that it doesn’t happen again when I get home.

Ok, so I got home 30 minutes ago and I’m following some reddit links from /r/irc, when I get a “You have been blocked message”.

“Oh,” I thought.

“I forgot about that.”

So now I’m curious as to why, and what I can do about it.

Any ideas? Please help

EDIT:

if my blog goes down; let it be known that I tried to read the docs on nginx.org but was not able:

EDIT2:

plot thickens, it seems to work fine in chrome.

EDIT3:

I had set a custom user agent string (D'OH!) some time ago, and forgot about it. Which is now biting me on the butt.

Ironically I set that user agent string before because Google was not allowing me to log in to my account anymore, I got that working but now half the internet doesn’t work for me.

Kudos to RyanK24 on HackerNews for following up. Much, much appreciated.

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