Brave Search "Are you Human" convinced me to switch back to Google/DuckDuckGo

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@Naonak

My two cents re the Cloudflare Cops, including reference to Cloudflare Turnstile:

Captcha and proving I am not a robot

rCAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA ← Google hCAPTCHA ← used by Cloudflare hCAPTCHA related/Cloudflare Cops is/are involved with Brave Search. I use a VPN. The Cloudflare Cops previously got in the way, every time that I used Brave Search Engine Operators in search criteria - example: news site:ie ← trying to see news articles re Ireland. But lately (July 2025), I have not encountered that Cloudflare problem. Observing the Brave Browser > Developer Tools > Network window, a “Cloudflare frenzy” of repeatedly …

UX and Cloudflare issue (again)

. . . frustrating. Compared to 2 months ago, I can now proceed through most of the mazes of Cloudflare Cops (whereas, previously, the Cloudflare Cops had me repeatedly ‘walking the line.’ So to speak). Brave Browser = “BB” I use Brave Private Browsing / Private Windows; and, BB Global Shields settings: brave://settings/shields Set “Trackers & ads blocking” to the most aggressive level Set “Upgrade connections to HTTPS” to the standard level Do not block scripts Block 3rd party cookies Block…