# Cloudflare CAPTCHA

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare CAPTCHA and 22 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People prefer its one-click checkbox to Google reCAPTCHA and call it user friendly. Critics say it often loops endlessly, fails on some browsers, and appears too often.

## Why people recommend it

- Better than Google reCAPTCHA (2 comments): "the CloudFlare CAPTCHAs are a nuisance, but they're so much better than the Google reCAPTCHAs they replaced" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401988)) "I'll take a one-click cloudflare captcha over Google bullshit 10/10 times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826719))
- One-click, user-friendly challenge (2 comments): "I'll take a one-click cloudflare captcha over Google bullshit 10/10 times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826719)) "the only user friendly captcha of them all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044352))

## What people warn about

- Fails on some browsers and devices (5 comments): "I can't get past Cloudflare's captcha for the past 2-3 years (on Firefox)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401407)) "only certain blessed devices and browsers can seem to actually pass it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052113)) "their captcha is broken for me on my main browser for years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383707))
- Shows up too often, even on government sites (4 comments): "always great when you visit an official government website and are greeted with a Cloudflare captcha" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772611)) "I already don't bother with the Cloudflare ones half the time and just close the page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048136)) "you will encounter cloudflares' captcha checkbox everywhere and all of the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871167))
- Opaque, discriminates against some users (3 comments): "Everybody else gets to enjoy CloudFlare captcha, even when doing crawling at reasonable speeds." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834425)) "It's an opaque risk-based thing, which is the worst." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478631)) "the Cloudflare CAPTCHAs discriminate in various ways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051684))
- Gets stuck in endless loops (2 comments): "Cloudflare captcha = infinite loop of captchas (if it doesn't work on the first try)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612534)) "Being trapped in an infinite captcha loop will really grind your gears" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476919))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare CAPTCHA", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-captcha/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).