Cloudflare marking all traffic from Pakistan as threat

In plain words

This post documents an issue where Cloudflare's security system flags all traffic originating from Pakistan as threats, requiring users to complete captcha verification to access protected websites. The poster, located in Pakistan, discovered this pattern while browsing Cloudflare-protected sites and confirmed it by implementing Cloudflare on his own site, which showed 100% of Pakistani traffic marked as threats. The post questions whether this is a widespread problem affecting users in Pakistan and other developing countries, and speculates whether shared IP addresses in the region might cause false positives, seeking solutions to avoid constant captcha challenges.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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