Show HN: Cloudflare marking all traffic from Pakistan as threat

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14 years ago

whenever I click through to a site managed through cloudflare I end up seeing a screen asking me to identify myself. This has happened often enough especially with HN articles that I just close some articles outright and read the discussion on HN instead.

As an experiment I setup cloudflare for website of mine which gets majority of its traffic from Pakistan (where I am located). This is what I see https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8037186/cloudflare.png

It basically shows cloudflare marking 100% of traffic from Pakistan as known threats.

I would be interested to find out if its a common problem facing users from this region / other developing countries?

We commonly have shared ips in Pakistan could this cause cloudflare false positives?

Any suggestions for avoiding the captcha?

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