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It was made up by a shitty illegal crypto casino:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091144
Of course you can't find specific examples because they are known to be great with customers.
Opinions. Irrelevant. What is and isn't "shitty" is a matter of opinion. Obviously fuck casinos and crypto scams but it ain't relevant.
The explanation you linked on the other hand is valid. I think it's a little ridiculous though that Cloudflare can't do any sort of geo-restriction instead. Just about everything is illegal somewhere.
I can't be arsed.
That's not their job, it's the job of the site operator.
It's a free-tier service ffs. Who runs a company on a free-tier?
It is their job. They advertise it as bot blocking