Cloudflare has created a bit of grief with regular users getting spammed with "prove your human" requests.

Yes, e.g: I'll immediately close any attempt at Cloudfare's verification.

Out of interest, why that extreme? Just out of principle or some other reason?

My main terminal uses a PiHole with 120,000+ blacklist rules (not Cloudfare specifically — I allow most CDN's). This includes an entire blackout of Google/Facebook products, as well as most tracking/analytics services.

For example, I do not allow reCAPTCHA.

As a similar commentor noted, when just casually browsing I don't really have any desire to try hard to read random content. Should I absolutely need to access some information garden-walled behind Cloudfare: I have another computer that uses much less restrictive black-listing.

Not OP but it isn't super extreme if you are just surfing, it's like if the site is slow to load sometimes I wasn't that invested to use your site anyway

Can confirm. I have been blocked plenty of times and it's really annoying.

All the solutions are going to have a few false positives, sadly.

Or a lot if you use privacy extensions.

Cloudflare's automatic checks (before you get the captcha) must be pretty close to what ad peddlers do.